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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here.  Thanks, that is what I was trying to decide - [b]ballet vs a school that offers a bit of everything[/b]. I thought ballet was the basics and you could branch out later if needed. Is that true?[/quote]

PP from immediately above. Re: the bold, most studios are going to offer ballet and other classes as well. I don't know about pre-professional biggies like Washington School of Ballet or Maryland Youth Ballet but pretty much all ballet studios around here also offer at least some amount of modern, jazz and tap. To be frank it's a way to make more income and it also keeps kids engaged; however, some studios do require that students take ballet first of all, because ballet does teach the basics and starts conditioning the body for everything else.

So your choice doens't have to be as binary as "ballet studio" versus "studio that has a variety of dance forms." You can get a good ballet studio that also has good instruction in other forms.

But to come back to this...make sure your DD is interested. Of course she can't know that until she tries for a little while, I get that! Just take care this is something she's trying out for fun right now. At five, she should have no more than one dance class a week, MAYBE two, and I'd have her in some other non-dance activity too so she gets a variety. [/quote]

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