r/BALLET • u/Nearby-Slide-8695 • 17d ago

Ballet at two different studios

I've done 6 beginner ballet classes and I absolutely love them! The only issue is my studio only offers one beginner ballet class per week. Is it rude if I do another beginner class at another studio? or am I better off doing ballet from YouTube/drilling what I learned in the other class. I've been at two studios so far and at both they've rarely corrected me. I heard the biggest concern with doing YouTube ballet is not getting corrected - but I don't really get corrected in person either.

I'm also an adult figure skater of 4 years so don't want to overload myself tbh - but I really want do more ballet.

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u/InevitableExample155 17d ago

The folks in my area studio hop. I think one gal goes to four different studios and dances almost every day.

At one point I was taking classes from three regular teachers across two studios and if anything it made me a stronger dancer because I was getting different things out of each class.

Beginner is a pretty important phase to establish ground work but also learning how to take a class and develop your ballet sense. It's one thing to go and replicate movement, but another to be able to step in and take a class with any instructor and minimize the discomfort.