This might be a chicken/egg type question, however...
Thu, 25 Jan 2007, 03:01 pmSLE10 posts in thread
This might be a chicken/egg type question, however...
Thu, 25 Jan 2007, 03:01 pmJust 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
Logos, your advice is worth bottling and keeping :)
Fri, 26 Jan 2007, 11:46 amThanks to everyone... I think what I'm getting and if I've misunderstood feel free and tell me :), but she can keep going as she is and some time within the next few years she can pick up a general dance class because that will be enough for her? She totally does not want to be a ballerina when she grows up :) She wants to be an opera singer or be in musicals on Broadway (her current fave is Into the Woods - I got her the DVD for Xmas and we get a lot of that around the house now).
I think, for her, at the moment, being a singer who can dance a little will serve her given also that THAT is the way her priorities are in her mind too. But I wasn't sure how old she could be to pick up a general dance class... Plus I quite like her swimming and having a non-theatre type interest and activity in life... I think it is important to have a balance, especially when you're just 9 :)
Another thing to consider is her age now - and when she is a teenager she is more likely possibly to know which direction she wants to head and vocally we'll have a better chance of knowing whether she'll be able to consider Opera or whether she'll have to think of something else - which might need more dancing :) which of course brings us back to if that happens, should she have started dance lessons now...
one could go crazy thinking of this stuff, couldn't one! Speaking of which, anyone seen my straight jacket??? I'm sure I wasn't like that when I was 9!
DFE