Useful ballet tips for life.

[Fiz]

My hair has been driving me mad in this heat. I've put it up in a net and pinned it. I feel so much better

[RhodaKuc]

Ah the joys of a quick ballet bun on a hot day, a bad hair day - or when you just don't have the time to battle with the hairdryer/straighteners etc!!!

Just as well they are trendy with youngsters at the moment though - stops me feeling like granny!

[Anjuli_Bai]

Ballet class teaches one to listen carefully to instructions and/or directions.

 

(but also tends to teach one to over analyzing  sometimes - like when a doctor says move your foot - well, ok - how fast do you want me to move it - and in which direction - how high - turned out or not - flexed or pointed - and by then the doctor has died of old age.)

 

 

 

(doesn't help too much, though, with reading instructions on the package of a new gizmo)

[Jan McNulty]

(doesn't help too much, though, with reading instructions on the package of a new gizmo)

 

 

If you work in IT like I did, you NEVER read instructions - you just switch on and hope for the best!

[hfbrew]

As I'm short I used to wear pointe shoes when I needed to get things off high shelves. Much easier in my mind than getting a ladder!

 

Sadly arthritis and middle age has put paid to that idea!

[Bluebird22]

Don't buy those ridiculous party feet if you plan on wearing heels, instead pad your toes like you would in pointe shoes. Frighteningly high KGs plus toe pads and I managed to party all night

[Fiz]

I have to do a very high demi-point to close the windows in the classrooms where I work since elf and safety does not allow to to climb or chairs or tables

[MargaretN7]

If you work in IT like I did, you NEVER read instructions - you just switch on and hope for the best!

If you work in IT like I did, long long ago, you write the instructions and despair when users don't read them! If I'd had youtube back then, what ballet mimes could I have used to help those users? 

[toursenlair]

If you work in IT like I did, long long ago, you write the instructions and despair when users don't read them! If I'd had youtube back then, what ballet mimes could I have used to help those users? 

 

I SWEAR this program works! WHY are you CRYING? You have made a LAKE with your TEARS...

 

 

Meanwhile, I find a well-turned-out first position is very useful for sidling in front of seated patrons when getting to one's seat in the theatre.

[Dance*is*life]

I was very good at shooting in netball - took all my shots with a beautiful temps leve in arabesque! And I still walk down stairs with turned out feet........

[LinMM]

I often find I'm standing in first position for some reason in supermarket queues.....doesn't get me through any quicker though!!

[hfbrew]

I often find I'm standing in first position for some reason in supermarket queues.....doesn't get me through any quicker though!!

Ha ha! Its very useful for when you are picking up examiners from stations. Last week I was stood at St Albans clutching a syllabus book when I spotted who I guessed correctly to be the examiner (well groomed, excellent posture, brief case..)

 

Now I don't really fit the above description (being more short and dumpy!!) but she came up to me and said "you didn't need the book, you are standing in 1st position!!"

[Fiz]

Funny you should say that! My dentist, who is also my friend, said to me on Friday " I would know you were dancing again just by your posture and the way you walk, and look at the way you're holding your hands!"

[All4dancers]

Slightly different angle, but today, as we finished our picnic after my dd's tap exam, I used a grip from her hair to re-seal the packet of grated cheese I had bought so that we could take it home!

[MAB]

I always invite the local witch to any planned social functions - safer in the long run.

[alison]

I was very good at shooting in netball - took all my shots with a beautiful temps leve in arabesque!

 

And it's brilliant for defending, too: low arabesque on high demi-pointe, arms in open fifth, and I could hold it for ages and therefore not get penalised

 

Never tried the temps levé when I was shooting, though.

[Legseleven]

Exactly, Alison - that is just what DD does when defending in netball, we have been discussing it in the Doing Dance forum :-)

[alison]

Yes, I noticed afterwards

[loveclassics]

If you work in IT like I did, you NEVER read instructions - you just switch on and hope for the best!

And if you work on an IT helpdesk like I did you spend much of your time muttering RTFM under your breath!

[Jan McNulty]

Which, of course, we used to mutter about our Users because we preach what we don't practise!