- In your ballet school, always compare what you can do with girls 2 levels upper than yours.
- Always wear large oversized clothes when going to ballet. Most of all, wear large sport pants.
- Never listen to tips / advice / discussion you may have with your teacher.
- Always eat hamburgers (2 at a minimum) and drink coke before your ballet lessons.
- Just expose how flexible you are to other, do not help them to be.
- Never try pointe shoes before your end of year recital.
- Always critic what other dancer do, and when you fail just say you are tired.
- Ask parents, relative, boyfriend, friends, whoever to come and watch you at your ballet lesson
- Other girls in your ballet school will think you have many friends, and it is important to have friends.
- The watchers (as they are not ballet dancers) will be impressed by your ballet practice, although you fail to something.
- As your teacher will probably ask them to leave, just look sorry. All watchers will think you are someone very courageous to handle such teacher.
- If you consider you do a (pirouette, grand-jeté, ...) perfectly, don't try to do it better.
- If the weather is too hot, don't go to your lesson. If the weather is too cold, don't go to your lesson.
You'll be and remain convinced that what you are able to do is in many way not as good as what they can. You'll feel jalous and envious of them, and will only copy them. That way, you will not increase your own creative and artistic way, you'll just become a good copyist.
You'll avoid having your teacher see exactly the way you work and will keep away from the bad comments like "she's got fat there, her legs are not turned out, ...". As your teacher will not see what you do, he / she will not say it is right. If you are hot with those pants, just think that you may be cold if you remove them, so keep it.
Anyway, the teacher is just here to earn money and his / her only goal is to have his / her income at the end of the month. If she / he gives you this or that tip, it is just because it is the way she / he learnt when younger, and this is past. And, anyway, it is more pleasant to chat with your best friend than listening to what is said. If sometimes your teacher says you should listen, just laugh, this will make other laugh too and you'll be honoured to be the official ballet school laughing girl.
Sugar is very important for intensive exercice. With all this sugar and fat, you'll have enough energy when you'll need it. It you need to jump during the lesson, just claim you feel "heavy", this may be a good excuse not to do them. If you feel a bit hungry during the lesson, just eat a few more chocolate.
Exposing yourself as "the best" and not beeing helpfull is certainly the best way to remain convinced you are the best to something and avoid seeing other people getting better than you are. If talking about flexibility, always answer "it is the way I was born" when asked how you do, do not share your tips and personnal way to do, this would make you lose a big part of your charisma.
First, you risk to make them dirt. Second, they certainly are way too nice and clean to be worn. Just wait the last time before going on stage to wear them. Off course, as your feet will hurt, just stand en pointe during the performance and keep not smiling too much, everyone must see how hard it is. When going out of stage, just say everything is ok, and your feet do not hurt. If some seem surprised, just claim that "you do not understand why people do so much noise with brand new pointe shoes, as they do not hurt that much".
You must always have a good excuse for failing. And you do not need to find it, you have it. You are the best, you know it. And as the best, it is normal that you may be tired and exhausted with all you need to do to be. If some say you are not so good, just tell them you are, period. Off course, refuse to debate your status or whatever, other girls are not able to understand genius. If this comes from your teacher, just cry and have big tears. If asked why, beg to have congratulations, tell (with lots of tears in your voice) that you are good to nothing, nobody likes you and that you know the teacher hates you. You'll be surprised how much people will tell you you are not, maybe some will say (temporarily) they are your friends !!
First, this will add a lot of mess to your lessons. Second, you will feel very important for several reasons :
If you do it perfectly, why would you lose time trying to do it still better ?
You are way too much important and precious to risk beeing cold or hot at your ballet lesson. Always tell people who will ask why you didn't come that you were afraid of getting sick (or whatever) because of tireness, and that your body needs to have a stable temperature to perform at its best. People will not think you are fragile, they'll be convinced you are someone who knows what she does with her body, and must be an expert. Maybe some will ask you tips !!
