Adult Beginners Ballet Class ?

So you want to take a Ballet class, but you're over 30 ?
Or you want to take a Cha cha lesson, but you already have grand children ?
or you want to take a Tap dancing class but you're only 5 years old ?
Don't worry bout it, If you're really interested in it.... If it makes you happy... Why not give it a try anyway ?

Take a friend of mine, Tari, for example.
She used to take Ballet class when she was a kid, but for some reason, she stopped and when she was 23, she still wanted to have Beginners Ballet lessons, but she felt that she was too old.
So she started browsing the net, and it turned out , abroad, there are a lot of people over 40 who still take Ballet class, even guys !!

So she started calling Ballet schools to ask whether they offer Adult Beginners Ballet class, she called almost every Ballet school she could think of, but most of them offered classes for kids and teens, or Jazz Ballet for Adults, but Tari wanted to take the Classical Ballet class.
Some even offered Private Classes , but Tari wanted to be in a class with other people.

Untillll.....

She found one at Sumber Cipta Ballet school at Ciputat, near Pondok Indah.
Even though it was quite far from her house, she went there anyway, excited :)
And she met all these lovely ladies, 90% of them were Japanese and there was even one lady with grey hair, who was probably 65 years old.
Ibu Farida Oetoyo herself taught that class.
Tari was soooooooo happy she found that place :)
Even though nowadays she doesn't continue taking the class, but it goes to show, that if you look hard enough, there are other people in different age groups with the same hobby as you are.

That class with the Japanese ladies at Sumber Cipta doesn't exist anymore now, but I think they still offer Adult Beginners Ballet classes.
I'm not advertising for them, but at that time, Tari could only find the Adult's class there :)
There are probably other classes at other places.... go find out.

Other solution is to get a bunch of your friends or look for friends in forums with the same hobby, and then get a "private" lesson together with those new friends :)

It doesn't really matter whether you're 5 or 60 years old. If you start searching, you'll bound to find someone else with the same hobby as yours.

So don't ever think that you're too young or too old to take any class.

(nj / SanggarSeni.com)
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