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Children's Pages - Ballet LessonsExtract from the South Manchester Reporter – article by Susan Wright (22/01/2009) Ballet Teacher, Aged
10, is Tutu Good
Assistant headteacher at Didsbury’s Beaver Road Primary, Julie Mellish, said: "Charlotte asked if she could start her own ballet classes for the younger children, and she’d obviously thought it through well because she said she wanted to teach about 20 pupils. "She rounded up a little team of helpers and teaches them in the hall on Friday lunchtimes. She’s very good because she’s so enthusiastic and she motivates them well, so they have fun as well as learning ballet." Charlotte lives on Heritage Gardens, Didsbury, with her parents, Caroline and Jonathan, a solicitor, and her two sisters, Elizabeth, 13, and Emily, seven. Caroline, a trained solicitor who works part-time as an estate agent, said: "Charlotte started doing ballet when she was four because her elder sister was going and like a lot of little girls, she wanted to join in." Charlotte goes to dance lessons twice a week at the Emmanuel Church hall on Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury. She learns ballet, tap and modern dance, and recently attained a distinction in Grade 2 ballet, awarded by exam board, The Royal Academy of Dance. Charlotte, who would like to be a professional ballet dancer when she’s older, said: "I love doing ballet because I find it very moving and it’s something you can really get into. "It was weird because I had a dream that I was a ballet teacher and so I asked at school if I could teach some of the others. "We dance to music like Greensleeves and pop music, and we do moves like the first to fifth positions and plies and the bras bas move which uses the arms. "I give them stickers to congratulate them, and I pick a star of the week too. "I’m really looking forward to doing a performance for the school open day in March, but it’s going to be quite tough because I’ve got to come with some new dances. I think it will be fun though.". |
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TEN-year-old
Charlotte Lanigan is queen of the dancefloor at her school, teaching
ballet to a group of five and six-year-olds in her spare time.