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Mya · 07-14-2008, 02:03 PM

Hello, I don't think it could hurt to do some ballet as many of the others agree that it can help you in certain ways however i think you need to be careful too and make sure that you can partition your knowledge in such a way that you don't start to impose too much western technique on a dance that is innately non-western.

For example, the Jenna dvds, i think she breaks things down very clearly in her dvds but they are definitely very western in approach and that leaves a little something out of her style for me - something essence-wise has gone missing.

I'm not sure if i make any sense to you here but hopefully i did!

07-14-2008, 02:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
Mya Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Trinidad Posts: 567	Hello, I don't think it could hurt to do some ballet as many of the others agree that it can help you in certain ways however i think you need to be careful too and make sure that you can partition your knowledge in such a way that you don't start to impose too much western technique on a dance that is innately non-western. For example, the Jenna dvds, i think she breaks things down very clearly in her dvds but they are definitely very western in approach and that leaves a little something out of her style for me - something essence-wise has gone missing. I'm not sure if i make any sense to you here but hopefully i did!