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[i]I've been in love with ballet since I was about 4-years-old. I've taken about every different syllabus and variations there are, and have studied with as many different teachers as I could find over more than 20 years in ballet. Often in my classes nowadays a teacher will say to me "I was taught to do this this way, but tell me how so-and-so would have done this. How is that different in Vaganova, etc."The truth though is I never went into ballet professionally, but its a REAL serious activity for me.I gotta tell you, I was anxious to try point work, and in my later twenties, when I was in graduate school, I found a male teacher who did point work, and took classes from him for three months. I had three pairs of custom pointe shoes made, and got into all that was written. At the end of three months I decided, hey this is NOT for me, and haven't been on point since.I still can do that swans bit at parties with some of my friends, and it's fun, but I can't believe that pointe work ever helped strengthen my abilities or added more to my technique. It just hurt my feet.But still, everyone is different. If you want to give it a try, I'd say do it. But for me I would concentrate on other aspects of male technique.Good luck and keep dancing! balletboy >Hi to all my fellow dancers!! I am a 39 year old man who just started taking ballet lessons. I am in LOVE with ballet. I can not list all the benefits that ballet has done for me. My question however is about Pointe work. Can a guy at my advanced age take Pointe clssaes after a couple of years? Of all the things about ballet, I am very intrigued by trying to take Pointe. Are there any other guys who have managed to dance en Pointe as an older dancer? [/i]

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