Anyway, it is thought that kids below the age of 6 are not suitable for the real Pointe Ballet so what they do now is dance and rhythm, to let them have a feel of that it will be like. These classes teach kids to enjoy dancing and to learn to catch rhythm. They can start at about 3 years old.
Larissa's dance school is called Little Dance Academy and is located at Pandan Valley. I live in Toa Payoh so every Saturday morning, we get up early to have breakfast together as our bonding time before we embark on a 45 minutes travel to the dance school.
We need to take one feeder bus from our home to Caldecott Station transfer to a train to Holland Village before we take another bus and drop near her dance school. Her dance class is 45 minutes and I'll just wait for her to finish before we start the journey home again.
You must be thinking that I'm crazy to go through so much to go to a dance school so far away when there are so many others that are near to my place. HAHAH!
There are many dance schools out there but I know Larissa's dance teacher MAJORED in ballet when she was in school and she graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore. Call me racist but she is a true blue Singaporean and can communicate with my child better than the PRC teachers who have difficulty communicating with the kids, especially the Caucasian kids. Its literally chicken and duck talk (鸡同鸭讲). She also teaches better than the rest of the half bucket water (半桶水) people out that there who took a 3 month class or did a project on ballet in school and come out to teach.
The past few months that I've sat around eavesdropping listening to parents chit chat and all I hear are praises for this teacher.
Enough of my rambling on, here's some photos and videos. :)
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| My precious insisted on carrying my bag for me when I told her I was tired on our way to her dance class. |
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| Her usual breakfast. She made me remove the yolks coz she doesn't like them. |
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| This is her ballet teacher! |
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| Getting down on her knees to interact with the kids |
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| They also do stretching. Look at Larissa's big tum tum. LOL! |
