Welcome to my BALLET site!

Hi! My name is ANA LUISA, I'm a huge ballet lover,I hope you enjoy my ballet site.

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I just love ballet, I have practiced it since I was 8. I'm not the best dancer in this world (and I'm sure I won't be), but I really don't know how my life would be without it. So many years have passed since I took my first ballet class that it would make it very difficult to leave it. Ballet is now an important part of my life (wow, my mom should read this)

The pointe shoes are the wrost part of ballet (for the ones who practice it), but it is surely the most beautiful part also (for the ones that just watch it). Nobody would ever know all the pain pointe shoes are until they wear them. When I was a kid, I dreamed about the day my teacher (Carmen Franck) would ask me to buy my first pair of pointe shoes, and the day my dream happened I was that excited that I couldn't even sleep. Some years have passed since that day, and now my new wish is to have a dog who can destroy my pointe shoes.

I have gone to several ballet summer workshops. My teacher has taken her students to many and she has organized many also. I have most asisted to the ones here in Morelia, to four of the five she has organized (I didn't go to last year's), this year's was the most hard, for me. I was in class with the most advanced students of the Academy (I'm an Intermediate), I wasn't able to do all the things they could, but I have learnt a lot. Last year I went to New Orleans to a summer workshop, to Giacobbe Academy of Dance, it has appeared in Dance Magazine (August, 1996), I made many friends there.

Classical ballet is divided in 2 parts: Romantic ballet(the first) and Classidal.

Some Romantic ballets are Giselle (1841, made for dacer Carlota Grisi by Jules Perrot, story by Théophile Gautier), La Sylphyde (1832, made for dancer Marie Taglioni by her father, coregographer Filippo Taglioni), La Esmeralda (1844,by Jules Perrot based on Victor Hugo's Notre Dame of Paris), Coppélia (1870, by Arthur Saint-Léon.

Some examples of Classical ballets are le Spectre de la Rose (1911), The Sleeping Beauty (1890, by Marius Petipa), Swan Lake (1895) and many more.

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This page was first made on August 7, 1997

This page is dedicated to everybody who loves ballet as I do, to my ballet teacher: Carmen Franck, to all my ballet class classmates (to all the girls from the Academy in general), to my friends from New Orleans (especially to Patrick & his family), my friends from Wisconsin (especially to Anna Jeske who practices it) & to Gisela, my friend, a person I know loves ballet as much as I do.

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