A Pointe to Perfection

Whether rooted deeply through generations of a family or formed through an experience, passions and fascinations are what drives us, humans, to be who we truly are. At this point in my life, I do not want to reach comfort or perfection, but rather feel composed and confident in what I chose to merge my ballet skills with. When I dance, I escape reality and feel a pure exhilaration.This sensation shapes my curiosity and interest in the human anatomy. From the elements that make it up to ways in which

shoes”. As they begin to dance, the very thought of how simple it is made to look and how it cannot be that difficult to copy what the beautiful, ballerinas are doing float through the heads of the audience. However, pun intended, isn’t that the “pointe” of dance? The lifestyle of a dancer is often pre-judged under the misconceptions that dance is easy to do, slightly boring to watch, and not considered a sport. Dance is believed to be breathtaking but at the same time yielding so much power through

When one hears the word ballerina, most picture a pretty, delicate dancer in a music box. The word is associated with grace and beauty. A ballet company would be considered a utopia for many little girls. They imagine being center stage with a tiara and a big tutu on. The public would not consider the world of professional ballet to be as corrupt as it is. There is trickery, politics, discrimination, and even self-sabotage in the seemingly harmless world. The tinkling music box world suddenly becomes

There is a common tie that connects people around the world: the experience of pain. While many people experience pain differently, and experience pain relative to their own levels of tolerance, pain is a universal sensation, and, at times, a shared experience. While individual physical pain is isolated to one’s own body, empathy for the physical pain of others and the resulting emotional pain can be shared. Being empathetic and considerate towards others not only brings people together, but also

the average model, which makes each ballerina become anorexic. I understand the need for thinness in ballet as my girlfriend and I were in ballet classes together, although not near the average age of a starting ballerina. In order to “go up on pointe”, you cannot weight a lot or you can break your foot or ankle. However, when the average age of starting ballet classes is seven and a seven year old is being told they need to look perfect, it sets the stage for problems of self-image and confidence

The History of Ballet The first experience of watching a ballet, for me or any little girl, can be fascinating and exhilarating. Wondering how a dancer can be so steady on her toes as she spins in circles and leaps through the air. Watching a ballet, there is a feeling of wanting to be graceful, as well as the warm sensation felt by a little girl as she slips into dream land. My mom had taken me to my first ballet when I was 11 years old. When we returned home home, she signed me up for classes

shifts from the combination’s steps to the technique to perfect the steps they are already remembering. Underneath the layer of concentration and determination, you may begin to see frustration or pain. A typical company level ballet class requires perfection, and practically perfect attendance. Dancers are taught to persevere through the pain. I can tell you from experience, that sometimes it means finishing a performance or rehearsal, even with a broken foot, and dancing with broken ribs. While dance

Those that tend to be arrogant, require excessive admiration, have a magnificent sense of self-importance, and a sense of entitlement (Robbins and Judge, 2009). The executive chef of The Pointe Restaurant in the Omni Hotel Charlottesville had a great sense of self-worth. The presentation states that the perfection error is perceiving we are better than we really are (Lesson 2, 2016). The Chef was arrogant when it came to thinking everyone had to listen to him and only his ideas mattered. The narcissist

watching through the window, my cousin taking pointe class. I wanted other people to watch me like I was watching my cousin and to feel that same sense of joy and wonder. Now, fourteen years later, dancing gives me just as much pure joy as it did on the soccer field, and watching others dance makes me ohh and ahh like the three year old me. I have primarily trained in ballet and modern. I enjoy ballet because there is always something to strive for, a perfection that can never be reached,

This was a classical ballet in which the subject of love was present in every piece. Love was portrayed not only as triumphant but also in the form of failure. The subject of love was shown in different ways. Some pieces showed the positive aspect of love, some other presented the negative aspect and others showed how complicated love can be. Some pieces of the show made my heart melt as it reminded me of the romance, the passion and the intimacy of love as it was portrayed in the performances