I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.
I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing out on anything. Ballet became my ultimate passion.
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.