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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Knowing what I know now after having kids do both, I'd start with gymnastics to see if the gym would want to put her on the pre-team track. For many gyms, it's amazing how early the kids are identified as team potential vs rec level (around your DD's age), and really hard for kids who come in later on the rec side to catch up. If your DD ends up choosing gym over dance, at least you gave her all of the chances you could.

Dance is much more forgiving, especially for ballet schools where the first level of serious study starts around 7-8. And if she ends up choosing other styles of dance over ballet, gymnastics skills will help.[/quote]

She's FOUR. And as someone who has been involved with gymnastics since before I can remember, any gym that is identifying 4 year olds for pre-team and/or refuses to look at older kids for team simply because they're older, is not a gym you want to go to.[/quote]

At four our girls were invited to join the invitation-only pre-team class and at five were invited to join the Level 3 class (even though they couldn't compete at Level 3 until six).  Our gym does not discourage older kids from joining teams, but it is true that kids at that age could be put on the pre-team track.

OP, my opinion is that dance at four can be relatively boring and a lot of kids end up quitting before they get to do much.  Gymnastics is a better foundation at that age and she can easily transition to dance in a few years if she's interested.  All my friends who have been professional dancers have said they wouldn't start their own kids in dance at that age.[/quote]

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