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Tap Ballet

What is a ballet/tap DEN MOM/ What are there duties?

My daughter starts a new ballet and tap class and the instructor has asked me to be there den mother.What does that require I'm really new at the whole dance thing... My daughter is 4 and it is both of are 1st time doing something like this and I'm to embarrassed to ask at the school.
Thanks

Whatever it is, the duties are probably more than you bargained for, unless the teacher is offering you a huge discount on your daughter's tuition. My guess is that this instructor makes putting on a recital a major part of the program and thus needs helpers to pull it off. This is not a good sign that she's asking the inexperienced parents for such help.

I'd like to refer you to a classic reference for people who are new to dance education. It's the "Ballet-Modern FAQ" compiled by the alt.arts.ballet usenet group, the great-granddaddy of all dance discussion groups on the internet. The information contained in the FAQ is golden and ageless, since it is the work of many dance experts over 9 years.

Part 1 of the FAQ can be found here:
http://www.dancer.com/tom-parsons/faq_1.html
(You may need to use your back button to land on the page.)

But I especially wish to draw your attention to this part in Part 3:
http://www.dancer.com/tom-parsons/faq_3.html#kid_school

Note the part where it says, "As for evaluating a school, note first that, as Sheila points out, if your child is very young (age 4 or 5), (s)he should start with a creative movement class, not half tap, half ballet. From this (s)he should move on to ballet or modern. Tap can be started at any time but is truly not as beneficial as ballet."

Scroll down to see a list of "danger signs," including #2:
"If they offer a huge variety of styles for children regardless of age, like jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, tumbling, baton, etc., and especially if they offer "combo" classes with various styles combined, go somewhere else."

[The FAQ is Copyright © 1995-2004 by Thomas Parsons.]

Moira dances ballet and tap

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