The Continuing Saga of Jamie's Ballet Lessons

[JamieG]

Hi Jamie - that was a great compliment. I got a similar one in dance class a few years ago. "Nice legs under the tights - too bad you can't get off the floor." - thus my amateur status.

That's funny. My teacher also gets on me about my inability to jump high.

Hey Jaime

Just wondering if there's and adults doing points work at your school? I know it'd just be the ladies, and there has to be a certain mastery to pull off the pointe work, but I remember a long time ago when in college I took dance classes I had a goal to get to the pointe of where I could audit a points class.

Well - needless to say it didn't happen. But just wondering. There have been schools where the guys can take pointe if they're good enough. Usually the smaller noble guys.

These are specifically classes for adults, so there's no special pointe class. I remember one session, one of ladies came with her pointe shoes and basically did everything we did, but just switched it to pointe as appropriate. I have heard of guys sometimes taking pointe, usually as a strengthening exercise or just to get a better sense of what their partners have to do.