Ballet Alexia

While at the summer Paris Opera Ballet program we had 5 different classes.

1. Classical Ballet
2. Mime
3. Floor Barre
4. Musical Expression
5. Folklore

This is a video of the mime and classical ballet performance we did to show our parents at the end of the program.  I hope you can find me in the videos.

Classical Ballet

Mime

My favorite was musical expression and mime and of course classical ballet.  In musical expression we got to feel the music and act out how it made us feel.  Mime was also very fun since I never did anything like that.  It was like acting without speaking.  Floor barre was like doing barre work but on the floor, kind of like yoga but much harder.  Folklore is a bit similar to the folklore that I do in my Serbian dancing.

Each day, they woke us up at 7:30.  We went downstairs and had breakfast and got ready for our classes.  The classes didn’t start until about 9:30 or sometimes 11:30.  We did not have every class every day except for classical ballet.  Each class was one and a half hours long.  We also had an one hour lunch break along with a morning or afternoon break.

The teachers were great and I learned a lot.  I was very privileged to have the opportunity to go.