BALLET OKLAHOMA DANCE
Is it too late for me to start dancing? If not, what do you recommend for me to get started?
So, I’m 14 and I really want to get involved in dancing. Ballet, tap, jazz… I’m too embarrassed to do classes with little kids, and private lessons are expensive but not exactly unattainable. I love doing musicals, but I hate feeling behind on the dance numbers, because most cast mates have been studying dance since they were like 3. I want to become really good, because, as cheesy as it sounds, I want to be on Broadway someday. I know a teeny-tiny bit of dance from the shows I’ve been in (master classes and such) but I’m not any good at it, and not at all graceful. Please help if you can!!! And if it helps, I live in Oklahoma City if you have any suggestions for nearby studios that would be good. And I’m enrolled for a beginning dance class next semester at my school. Thanks so much!!!
I already have vocal lessons, I am in choir, and I am currently involved in an acting program at a local college.
It’s def. not too late for you to start dancing or to get involved. Since your dream is to be on Broadway, it’s obviously not all about dance, it includes acting and singing as well. So what I think you should do is take a ballet class as well as a modern class (and more modern than ballet bc that’s probably what will be the type of dance you’ll use on Broadway unless you really love ballet a lot more than modern then take equal amounts). To supplement this, if you have time and it’s affordable somewhere near you, you should probably take a singing class, maybe even just a chorus if that’s easier than private lessons or classes, and an acting class as well. I don’t know what school you go to but most schools offer acting as well as singing, so if you’re already taking dance next semester, great! You could take singing in school and acting outside of school or vice versa if you don’t want to do both outside of school (too much money, too much time). If you take classes for dance you will naturally become graceful. I’m sure that any dance studio around you (i’m sorry but I don’t live in Oklahoma City) offers teen beginner dance classes– i doubt that they would put you in a little kid class however amature of a dancer you are.
The most important things, though, are that a) you really love to dance (and act and sing for Broadway), b) you’re willing to commit to it, not just give up because you’re lazy or it’s too hard, c) be patient and willing to practice on your own, and d) have fun! express yourself, have fun, dance, act, sing with emotion! 
haha hope i helped, good luck!! i love broadway!
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