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This might be a chicken/egg type question, however...

Thu, 25 Jan 2007, 03:01 pm
SLE10 posts in thread

Just say one loves to sing and one is young and one wants to be an opera singer or in musicals or some kind of performance based career when one is older and one has singing lessons (classical) and piano lessons (doing exams for both), and one can dance a little but doesn't go to dance classes anymore because one has to eat, sleep, go to school and do other stuff as well :)

Singing teachers I've spoken to say all singers should be able to play the piano - so we've got that happening... but what about dancing? 

Who has the easier future here - a dancer who can sing a bit, or a singer who can dance a bit and also play piano? 

My daughter has classical singing and piano lessons and also swims (and she wins medals so she's not keen to give up the swimming yet and I want her to do fun stuff she enjoys, too), so at the moment there is little room for any more activity... I'm just wondering how important it is or even if it is necessary for her to go to ballet classes or something... she's not interested in becoming a dancer - she wants to sing.

Opinions... advice, etc. welcome and thank you all in advance :)

DFE

let her choose

Thu, 25 Jan 2007, 10:53 pm
Walter Plinge
Dance is funny isn't it. I have to admit, with no dance training in me, i often have troubles getting parts. So yeah get hr in something just for coordination, then if she wants a career, she can take it up later on easily. But really, How old is she? let her Decide if she wants to go to dance classes! Most will let her take the first few free to decide if she liks it, then go from there. At her young age now, it's always likely she'll decide soon anough that she hates this ole performing biz anyway! And the other idea, get her into diving.. which is tranfrance to gymnastics, which is tranferance to dance. Ie, if she can do one, she'll have no trouble with the other.

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