Customer Reviews

How to Be a Ballerina/How to Be a Ballet Dancer

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My daughter is 3 1/2 and like most girls is into Barbie DVDs and ballet. From the moment I put this disc in she couldn't take her eyes off of it. The video has good instruction that's easy for tots to follow. She always looks forward to doing it. It's an excuse for her to watch TV and exercise at the same time. Get one.

My 2 year old daughter loves this video. She actually will sit and watch it all the way through. It has little girls dancing and dressing and being exciting aobut it all, and she loves to watch them. They show footage from professional ballets and even show the girls in the video doing a stage performance....all this is great to spark interest and help my daughter understand the whole world of dance a little better. However, if you are looking for a video to begin to teach ballet I would choose another one. The video assumes that you already know what a Plie is and goes right into a full fledge dance. It dosent start from square one as far as form and postition go.

Unless your child is at least, perhaps, seven, and has ballet experience, I think this DVD will mostly be frustrating. It attempts to "teach" some pretty complex choreography, while posing as a DVD for younger children. It does have some moderately fun warm ups and glimpses into a ballet school, but the majority of it, the dancing, is really far too complicated for little children. This could be simplified and made enjoyable to a wider range of kids.

This is a great introduction to ballet for budding ballerinas in the 2-3year old bracket. My 2 year old LOVES this movie and will practice her ballerina moves around the house even while this isn't playing. I think it's great for the younger set because the instruction is simple (not a lot of French terms & the instructors are fairly light-hearted compared to those shown in some other ballet DVDs). The DVD also shows girls going to the store to be fitted for shoes, dance classes (of course), a teen-aged girl touring a school for the performing arts, rehersals, and excerpts of performances (Sleeping Beauty & the Nutcracker). The main dance instruction focuses on a class for 3ish year old girls and another class for 4-5 year old girls. It's very basic, but may help you decide whether your girl is ready for dance lessons. If you have an older child, look for another DVD. As with all children's DVDs, I recommend renting it through Neflix first and then buying it only if your child LOVES it.

This video is not for beginner dancer with less of 5 years old. I bought this video for my daugther of five years and the first part is to hard and too fast for a girl that never took ballet class, and the second part very short of class, because the most of time is speaking about the ballet academy in others part of world. She saw only one time and never wanted again. very sad...

I bought this DVD mainly for my 3.5 year old ballerina wannabe, but it ended up drawing in my 7 year old and myself! We all had a great time trying to follow along, and the narrator's voice is encouraging and soothing. This is, I believe, a British production. If your kids watch Angelina Ballerina, you may notice a similarity to the "real life" segments of that show. Well worth the cost and I am sure will be watched in our house for some time!

Before signing up for ballet lessons, I wanted to test my little girl's interest. She was fascinated by the video and with 90 minutes of instruction broken into logical chapters, we can watch a different piece every day. She asks to watch this video every day and can not help but join the class in the fun. It gives a great instruction to some fun easy to follow moves and gives a great intro to the ballet of Sleeping Beauty! Needless to say, I have since signed her up for lessons!

This DVD was a waste of money. It is instructional for about 10mins.My daughter and neice were very dissappointed.