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[quote=Anonymous]OP: What age group is your child? I have a five-year-old who's been doing Ballet Petite for about two years, and she's now learning actual ballet--positions, steps, combinations--after a few courses of introduction to ballet (the early ballet classes are really lovely for preschoolers, prekindergartners; they have it down to a science about getting kids interested in dance and keeping the class moving at their attention's pace). I don't know that we plan to keep her there much longer if she seems serious about ballet, partly because the rooms aren't very big, and one of the joys of ballet is getting to dance across the full floor after barre work.

But there's an element of choice about schools that can echo of Washington competitiveness and the idea if something isn't Big Name and hard-nosed, it's soft and worthless. As a mom who did ballet when I was a girl and for whom dance was almost ruined by an ultra-competitive, took-itself-too-seriously pre-professional feeder school, I'd rather my daughter be someplace where dance is taught with a sense of joy and purpose together. All that to say, think about age of your child but also think about what environment she--and you--would be looking for. [/quote]

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