This is what it's about.

       In a world where one of the top clothing designers isn't Armani but rather Yumiko Leotards, where your job is not to sit behind a desk all day and answer phone calls, but to spend your entire day in a studio sweating like crazy. In a world where rather then buying that new pair of stilettos your buying 6 new pairs of pointe shoes, where a little girls most exciting moment is not putting on lipstick for the first time but putting on a tutu for the first time. In a world where rather then being surrounded by cubicle walls you are surrounded by mirrors and barres. When you take off your pointe shoes and your feet have turned into a mass of blisters and calluses and you are proud of yourself.
When you first realize how it feels to be a princess, when you put on your pointe shoes, put stage make up on your face, and step into your pancake tutu and your prince walks you onto the stage and all eyes are on you.
      Ballet is my life, I have been dancing for 11 years now, I have never done anything else, no sports just ballet. My friends and I have a very strong bond, we are with each other every day, from 6:14-9pm and on saturdays sometimes 9:30-6. A big set back to high school dancers is often "I don't get home til 10 so I am up til 3 am doing homework." and that is the dedication of a dancer. This is just my first post, so basically I am just setting the scene of a dancers life so people understand the commitment. We dancers find it frustrating when people try to make ballet seem like such an easy thing, like there is nothing special or challenging about it, but i also think the only reason people try to make it look that way is because when they see a dancer…everything the dancer does is with gracefulness and ease. Because we strive for perfection, but just because we can do something, doesn't mean it's perfect, it means it could be much much better.