Content

• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings
• What do you need

Do you dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer, but you don't know how to do it? Fortunately, the process is fairly easy.

Steps

1. 1 Check out the body requirements. Everyone who wants to practice ballet must know a certain set of requirements for their body.
   • You must have a strong heart, back, feet and legs, a flexible body, grace in dancing, and general health. You also need to be at a healthy weight. You don't need to have all these qualities to start ballet, but they are all useful if you want to become a professional ballerina. The dancers are strong and flexible at the same time.
2. 2 Wear suitable clothing. Wearing the right clothes can be a big boost.Not only will it make you look like a pro, but it will also help you move, and pointe shoes, for example, will help you perform technical elements.
   • In many schools, the basic uniform includes a one-piece leotard, tights, a Georgette skirt (thin fabric wrapped around the skirt), and soft ballet flats (leather or canvas). Once you have perfected your technique, your teacher may allow you to start wearing pointe shoes and practice to gain experience in pointe dancing. This skill is vital for professional ballerinas.
     • Not wear them until you are told. You can seriously injure your fingers, feet, or ankles.
3. 3 Get trained. This is perhaps the most difficult step if you are not already familiar with the world of ballet, but many have gone through it.
   • When choosing a school, make sure that the principals are experienced or have danced professionally before. See if the graduates of these schools have become professionals.
   • Make sure principals behave sensibly: there are many teachers who will do whatever it takes to make their students perfect dancers. It just doesn't make sense. Preparing dancers for professional careers is stressful. You don't want the teacher to increase this stress.
4. 4 Hire a personal trainer (do this if you want to develop your dancing skills). Practically every big city has a ballet school. Advanced dancers are advised to enroll in them. This can be an expensive but rewarding experience for your future.
   • Classes with one or two teachers are not enough to make you a professional ballerina. You must try to do everything right to avoid the risk of injury. Explore how your body reacts to ballet (anatomy, etc), try artistic imagery and other things that will help you get a better feel for your body.
5. 5 Analyze the movements of leading dancers, corps de ballet members ("background dancers") and students to understand the difference. What do they do differently? How do they do it? Why? You should ask yourself these and many other questions and find answers to them. You don't have to do everything yourself. There are many things you can learn from.
   • Feel free to develop your own ideas and opinions about your art form. In addition, knowing all this, you must also put your knowledge into practice. Stay after class to rehearse. While other people are dancing, and you are waiting for your turn, instead of talking or gossiping, ask yourself what you can do to be better, prettier, more artistic ... whatever. Understand this and then put it into practice.
6. 6 Gain experience in speaking. This is a very important step. Most schools organize demonstrations for their students.
   • If you want to improve your performance, try taking part in various competitions. It may also be helpful to temporarily practice with another teacher, for example at a summer workshop. Sometimes you can learn more skills and inspiration from a different teacher than from yours.
7. 7 Take extra workouts. Ballet trains your muscles in a special way, so it is very important to do other sports to balance the load. Try yoga, swimming, Pilates, hip hop, biking, hiking, or whatever else you like.
   • You should add activities like yoga because it makes you stronger. But you also need lessons in art and plastics, as you are a ballerina. You cannot go on stage and perform tricks, there is no art in it. You must have a sense of beauty. Try participating in theater plays, art circles, or gardening.
   • Even though it is hard work, you should always take time to rest. You don't want to burn out.
8. 8 Think in the right direction. Think about how you can move to the next level.
   • You may have good technique, but no one will notice you. Take part in summer camps of ballet schools organized by large companies.
   • You should always be ready to learn something new or something old in a new way. Get to know your teachers. Don't bother them, but get closer to them.
   • Remember, no one is worse than you. If there was someone more advanced around you, making you feel like nothing, think about how you would feel. And if you are asked for a favor, you will refuse. Don't be that person.
   • There are competitions organized to show dancers to directors of major ballet schools, and performing in front of them can provide you with a good place. However, risks can be added to the bonuses. Ballet is an art of performance, not a competition.
   • Remember to make friends who broaden your horizons. This is a very important point. If you need to move away from your parents at the age of 15-16 to increase your chances of career success, do so.
   • At this stage, everything is very subjective. It all depends on your choice, just like in high school. Think about what you would do.
     • For example, if you wanted to become a biochemist, you would research and apply to various universities, study as much as you can, etc. It is important that you are noticed and your name is remembered.
   • Try to find inspiration in anything you doubt.

Tips

• Ballet can be just a hobby. To do it professionally, you need a lot of commitment and consistency. If you keep studying and working on mistakes, you will become better.
• Before you start dancing on pointe, try to be like a preparation class for this type of dance. These activities prepare the foot to start dancing in pointe shoes.
• Wearing the right clothes will support and help you move.
• It's important to start when you're young. If you don't have a perfect body, constant ballet practice at a young age will get you in shape.

Warnings

• If you do ballet but don't like it, you will end up failing. You must love what you do. Ballet is not a highly paid profession. You will dance for 8 hours for a small fee. Do it because you really like it and for nothing else.
• Ballet is a bloody sport: there is a lot of competition, and you have to have fortitude. There will always be people who will drag you down and say that you are not good enough.

What do you need

• Suitable place to practice (stretching / ballet and pointe classes)
• Teacher qualified in dance or ballet
• The right clothes that will not hinder movement