Ballet

The latest craze is for ballet. Abi borrowed an Usborne early readers book (with pictures) on ballet and has been studying the pictures intently. Her mother bought some ballet slippers for her from a ballet shop (Abi was fitted while looking at racks of dancing clothes and watching a DVD of then competition scene from Dirty Dancing), then Priscilla also found a beautiful pink dress at the Pumpkin Patch outlet store for $10 (was $60). Abi's eyes lit up when presented with this dress, and she immediately took off all her clothes (including underpants) to try it on! Luckily it was in the warm bathroom cos the winter nights are nippy inside the house.

Anyway Abi has put on this dress and the ballet slippers everyday for a dance time, usually to Wiggles music that is soft and relaxing. She loves slow graceful music. Abi practises the poses from her ballet library book, arabesques usually, but was also interested in the dance positions for feet and arms. It is all her parents can do to persuade Abi to wear thermal underwear and maybe a jacket as well as the flimsy dress.

Will she be receptive to ballet class? Didn't like the Rhythmworks dance class that combined tap, jazz and ballet with props like ribbons, pompoms, flowers. Maybe cos the teacher wasn't wearing beautiful dance clothes, just rehearsal type pants and t-shirt. The other little girls there were jumping madly and maybe Abi liked it but it wasn't her idea of ballet/dancing?? She did say she only wanted to dance at home, but that was before the dress had been found.