Ballet

When I was small, I started visiting ballet lessons. It's now my 12th year in ballet. That means that I am also ending the second part of ballet education. This year we (me and my 4 fellow ballet dancers) will be ballet graduates. Ballet has become an important part of my life, so I will probably continue to go there to dance even after I've finished the 12 years long ballet education.

We have lessons two times a week and also voluntary classical dancing and sometimes workshops on weekends.

We get a chance to learn all sorts of dancing - classical dancing, dancing on point shoes, modern dances, folk dances, funny dances (for example a parody of Swan lake) and even tap-dancing.

At the end of every school year all our ballet dancers (about a hundred of them) have a final performance. We perform usually on two days - two shortened performances (about an hour each) in the morning for schools and one full-length performance in the evening for anyone who wants to come. It's quite an important event in Rožnov (the town where I have ballet lessons) and the morning performances are reserved by schools a year in advance and the afternoon performances are always full too. I enjoy this very much. Every one of our classes (we are split according to age) dances from one to five dances (each of them about three or four minutes long). The evening programme is about 2 hours long.

Sometimes we also take part in ballet competitions or festivals.

If you click this link, you will find a complete photogallery from our ballet performances and activities: toroznov.rajce.idnes.cz/

Here you can see photos from our performances and lessons and videos of some of our dances: