elegance Grace and discipline are some
of the best ways to describe ballet hi
and welcome to watchmojo.com i’m your
host mahalo come on and today i had the
opportunity to speak to christine a
ballet instructor I started I was five I
started dancing classical and jazz
ballet as a hobby so it wasn’t anything
serious but I really enjoyed it so I
continued and I persevered and I loved
it on the side I did my normal study so
i did a degree in law and then a
master’s in communication and none of
that really made me happy so i decided
to go back to my passion and so I opened
a ballet school and now I’m teaching
every day and dancing with kids so it’s
lots of fun why ballet why did you start
to get into ballet like most kids i
watch The Nutcracker on television and I
saw this beautiful ballerina doing an
arabesque and I said mommy I want to do
that is it really hard to learn I don’t
quite remember because I was quite young
and the way you teach classical ballets
through songs and images and so
everything’s really playful it’s hard
technique so it’s hard to teach as an
adult you can appreciate how difficult
it is to teach and how it difficult it
is to learn but as the child you don’t
really notice it because you’re having
fun doing it so then you wake up you’re
ten eleven you’ve been dancing for five
years and you’ve got all these wonderful
techniques that you know how to do is
there a perfect age to start or can
anybody learn I have actually classes
for adults who start and just want to be
graceful and practice a few movements
and so anyone really can do it but
obviously the later you started the
harder it is for your body to adapt to
certain positions I heard that there’s a
lot of sacrifice involved with ballet
can you talk to me a little bit about
that that’s especially true for
ballerinas who work in ballet companies
there have their morning class and after
that they usually rehearse for their
show that they present in front of an
audience so obviously there’s a lot of
sacrifices you have to watch your diet
you have to watch your body because it’s
very strenuous on your body you have to
have massages regularly and obviously
you have to go to bed early if you want
to be in good shape for your morning
class so yes there’s a lot of sacrifice
involved that I mean the ballerinas who
choose to do that as a career are people
who are driven who people who love dance
and who are ready to make those kind of
what is your favorite ballet and why my
favorite ballet used to be a swan lake
because it’s every little girls favorite
valatie but my ballet school is called
Valley coppelia which is another Valley
it’s the story of a little mechanical
doll who comes to life it’s such a
beautiful ballet such a beautiful story
and it’s all about magic and all about
love and I thought it just represented
well what a ballet should be because
that’s what kids want to see also and
wanna learn how can I be that beautiful
ballerina is that magical and that’s
what I like to offer and present them
yes you are able to do this and you’re
going to learn it and you’re going to do
beautiful arabesques and look it’s it’s
not that hard
of the best ways to describe ballet hi
and welcome to watchmojo.com i’m your
host mahalo come on and today i had the
opportunity to speak to christine a
ballet instructor I started I was five I
started dancing classical and jazz
ballet as a hobby so it wasn’t anything
serious but I really enjoyed it so I
continued and I persevered and I loved
it on the side I did my normal study so
i did a degree in law and then a
master’s in communication and none of
that really made me happy so i decided
to go back to my passion and so I opened
a ballet school and now I’m teaching
every day and dancing with kids so it’s
lots of fun why ballet why did you start
to get into ballet like most kids i
watch The Nutcracker on television and I
saw this beautiful ballerina doing an
arabesque and I said mommy I want to do
that is it really hard to learn I don’t
quite remember because I was quite young
and the way you teach classical ballets
through songs and images and so
everything’s really playful it’s hard
technique so it’s hard to teach as an
adult you can appreciate how difficult
it is to teach and how it difficult it
is to learn but as the child you don’t
really notice it because you’re having
fun doing it so then you wake up you’re
ten eleven you’ve been dancing for five
years and you’ve got all these wonderful
techniques that you know how to do is
there a perfect age to start or can
anybody learn I have actually classes
for adults who start and just want to be
graceful and practice a few movements
and so anyone really can do it but
obviously the later you started the
harder it is for your body to adapt to
certain positions I heard that there’s a
lot of sacrifice involved with ballet
can you talk to me a little bit about
that that’s especially true for
ballerinas who work in ballet companies
there have their morning class and after
that they usually rehearse for their
show that they present in front of an
audience so obviously there’s a lot of
sacrifices you have to watch your diet
you have to watch your body because it’s
very strenuous on your body you have to
have massages regularly and obviously
you have to go to bed early if you want
to be in good shape for your morning
class so yes there’s a lot of sacrifice
involved that I mean the ballerinas who
choose to do that as a career are people
who are driven who people who love dance
and who are ready to make those kind of
what is your favorite ballet and why my
favorite ballet used to be a swan lake
because it’s every little girls favorite
valatie but my ballet school is called
Valley coppelia which is another Valley
it’s the story of a little mechanical
doll who comes to life it’s such a
beautiful ballet such a beautiful story
and it’s all about magic and all about
love and I thought it just represented
well what a ballet should be because
that’s what kids want to see also and
wanna learn how can I be that beautiful
ballerina is that magical and that’s
what I like to offer and present them
yes you are able to do this and you’re
going to learn it and you’re going to do
beautiful arabesques and look it’s it’s
not that hard
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