Post from Tyisha Nedd: Ballet for your Body Type

As I mentioned before ballet in the past had always been a genre that I felt less than beautiful. While thinking about my experience with ballet here at OSU in comparison to previous experiences the origin of my former resentment became quite evident. It was the teachers who tailored the structure of his/her classes based off of one body type and mine was not in that category (which they seemed to have a  thing for making sure that you knew that). However, now I have a whole new appreciation for ballet and my hatred no longer exists. I owe this to teachers such as Courtney and Jessica who understand the many anatomical varieties that are in a class. They not only recognize and respect our differences but they educate us on how to maximize our potential and how to work with our bodies  to produce safe , effective, technically sound and beautiful movement(such a breath of refreshing air).I was inspired to talk about this because of Jessica's comment about how we need to be the next teachers who actually teach GOOD ballet. Though have no inclination to ever teach a ballet class I can rest assure that nieces, nephews, future children... or just the next generation of dancers will be in good hands with anyone in our class and will not be subjected to the forced turn out , tucked booty syndrome.