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Beginner I Ballet

November 09th, 2006 | Category: Ballet

My daughter, Anna, wanted to take Ballet this year so I signed her up at the Conservatory Ballet in Reston, a town in Fairfax, Virginia in the Washington DC area. I got a chance to take her to class today and watch. What fun :-)

The teacher even let me snap a few pictures of the class. Below is one of the girls in the class (not Anna).

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7 comments

7 Comments so far

  1. Annalivia December 7th, 2006 1:59 pm

    Thats a lovely photo. You have a real eye for kids.

  2. Bill Brookman May 26th, 2007 5:08 pm

    Beautiful photo.
    I direct a children’s dance company in the UK, though I am presently working on theatre/arms reduction projects in Haiti.
    I’ve taken a lot of dance/young people’s photos myself. I was in Russia and had the chance to photograph a tragic case of a child having a fit in a 1 on 1 psychiatric dance class. Awful but utterly powerful imagery. No film. Never forgot it.

  3. Lisa September 6th, 2007 10:08 pm

    Hi Carl

    I love your images of your daughters dance class. I am a physiotherapist who works a lot with dancers and produce training resourses to help reduce the incidence of injuries in young dancers. I was wondering whether I could use this image in one of my training manuals for distribution to teachers. I can forward you a free copy for your daughters teacher when it is complete if you like :)

    Kind regards,

    Lisa Howell

    lisa@perfectformphysio.com

  4. cdhutzler September 7th, 2007 7:02 am

    Unfortunately I do not have any commercial rights to the images. I was granted permission to shoot my daughter’s class strictly for “family use” and not for commercial purposes. Even if I could provide the image (if I got permission of the studio for this request), I would have to get waivers/consent from any student you wanted to use. They are not all pictures of my daughter so I can not grant consent for all of them.

  5. stephanie October 24th, 2007 4:44 pm

    wow you have an eye for children.what a lovly photo.

  6. Chryse November 6th, 2007 3:27 am

    hi!
    i have just started ballet and i have gone to 2 classes. i think that your photo looked great. i just wish i could do ballet easily. but then again, all things come with practice- or so my mum says anyway.

  7. cdhutzler November 6th, 2007 6:48 am

    Cool. Thanks “Georgie Peorgie”. I appreciate your comment and wish the best with your ballet practice!

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