When do you thi k ill be en pointé?
I just re-started dance after not dancing for 5 years. I am 14. I take three ballet classes a week an hour and 15 mins each. If I continue this roughly how long do you think I'll be en pointé?
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As real ballet training doesn't start until age 7 or 8 when the body is mature enough to handle turnout and you stopped at 9 and haven't danced for 5 years, you have little to no muscle memory left. Not to mention your body has changed quite a bit from 9 to 14. You really have to start at square one and the only advantage you will have is you will know some of the names of the positions you remember and what you are generally supposed to be doing. Unfortunately, your body wont remember and you will need about three years of classes to be ready. Not a year or two, unless you have a poor ballet teacher. In general it takes about three consecutive years of taking three 90 minute ballet classes a week to be ready. While a standard ballet class is 90 not 75 minutes, I don't think the 15 minutes a class you would be missing would make all that much difference.
To be ready for pointe you need strong feet, ankles, legs and core along with balance and the ability to engage and hold your turnout without sickling . Most important is strong ballet technique. There are no short cuts for that. You have to learn to do everything and do it well first on flat before you can d it en pointe.
* EDIT: Pointe is not painful if you are really ready for pointe work. Not the most comfortable but not really painful. Most dancers feet just feel a bit numb and you will get a few blister at the start until you get used to it and build some calluses. As dancerforlife is going to be just starting pointe (I just answered a question of hers about it) she is just assuming that it will be very painful.
It depends on how strong you are and your technique. But i say roughly a year or 2 years oh and dont get to excited its painful blisters and foot pain a lot of foot pain
i might desire to stand (stability) on pointe in retire bare-footed once I danced. maximum dancers can try this. status en pointe on the two ft in any place replaced right into a breeze. The shoe facilitates, however the foot does the artwork. i think of it has plenty to do with the organic shape of my ft and that my toe length replaced into ideal for dancing on pointe. in any different case, i replaced into merely very solid. FYI, it is not very solid to your ft. it is in basic terms a party gag!
roughly two years i think :) x
good luck!