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

I have had basic jazz training and basic circus training. I did circus when i was younger and it helped me alot with movement and flexability when it came to jazz. I found it easy to begin jazz when I was 13 but my sister on the other hand wanted to study Ballet and she never made it into a dance school because she was "too old" to look at it professionally. So she taught herself for two years and my god is she good. She taught herself all the way to an advanced ballet level in 2yrs! Then she was able to get into a dance school and have a class where most people were around her age. My point being. If it's ballet you want to look for, by my experience basic training at a young age - even if it's not for a long time period - would help her pick up dance further along the line because of basic movement and increased flexability. My second point. I play clarinet, sax, drums and am looking at learning piano. (I have a very musical family) I recently sold my sax, my other sister has the srum kit and I am focusing on Clarinet. I began drums when I was 6. Gave them up. Started clarinet when I was 11, sax 12, drums again at 12 and at nearly 18 am looking at beginning piano lessons. bTo add to this I don't sing (although am having to learn soon enough) but from what I hear, see and so forth piano and singing is always a good combination and if she wishes to pick up another instrument later on. Piano is the basis - sort of like ballet - for most if not all instruments and she'll know bass and treble so she has no limit on what instrument she can choose. Okay my two extended cents worth. . .I shall now retreat into my little hole. . . ~ Tari The Writer is a child forever listening at the keyhole of the adult world.