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Will I be able to be a good ballerina?
I want to finnaly start ballet. I'm 14 years old and I've ben thinking about ballet ever since I was a toddler. I was just too shy and timid to act out on it. Now I've gotten more bold and I want a hobby to stick to. Can I do it? Is It too late?
A ballerina is the top dancer in a professional company, and there can only be one. Everyone else, including the principal dancers and soloists, is a ballet dancer.
You're at an age where it will be too late to pursue this professionally (girls start professional level training around age 7, and no later than 13 in the rarest of cases). You're expected to have completed your ballet training by 16, and you'd be working with companies by the time you were 17-18, and hired full on in your late teens and early twenties. You work your way up the scale, usually by 25-30, and then you retire. The dance life is incredibly short-lived.
However, the is absolutely nothing stopping you from pursuing dance as a hobby, and there is absolutely nothing stopping you from becoming really really good. It's never too late to dance, and you can physically dance until you're 90. The only reason it's ever ''too late'' to do ballet is when you want a professional career, and that's only because traditionally dancers are in their mid-teens. It's kind of like the modeling world in that sense. If you're an inch too short you're not going to make it, whereas in dance if you start a year too late you're probably not going to make it.
It's a technicality.
Go take up a new hobby you'll love, and don't be afraid to excel. There are plenty of opportunities available for you, and you can enter the competition side of dance if you'd wish (that's something academy trained dancers don't get to do). If you decide to pursue jazz or contemporary in a few years then there is nothing stopping you from going pro in those departments. Jazz and contemporary dancers generally start training in their teens and early twenties (with a ballet background).
Go have fun!
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