Do you have to be trained in ballet to do lyrical dance????

Answer 1

It will definitely help. I havn't met a lyrical dancer who has never set foot in a ballet class. I know there are a few schools out there who offer Ballet for Jazz dancers. They are ballet classes that are structured for jazz and lyrical dancers. This was great for me when I was training. Now, I teach Lyrical & Jazz and I require my students to take a ballet or a jazz technique class.

Answer 2

Ballet would be good, just for the basic structure and knowledge of movement. You need to learn the fundamentals of dance before trying lyrical. Lyrical is difficult even with training.

Answer 3

No, but it certainly helps. Lyrical dance requires a certain amount of lift, of elevation, and of continuity. You need to know where to put your hands and your feet, how to exhibit grace and fluidity of motion. Ballet can provide this for you. But if you have a good choreographer, you can learn lyrical dance without ballet training -- but it won't be easy!

Answer 4

Ballet is a good foundation for all dance styles. Even ice skates who are serios about ice skating have to do ballet training (I did it). However, auxilliary ballet is not the same as if you're doing ballet as a main direction. In my ballet class for scaters, we never had to go on pointe, and were not planning to.

You probably don't have to be trained in ballet in order to do lyrical, but it would be helpful if you were.

Answer 5

you dont have to be trained in ballet to do lyrical dance, but it would help a lot, a lot of techinical aspects of lyrical are based on ballet, as with many other dance forms

Answer 6

you don't have to, but it will help a great deal. alot of lyrical dancers have ballet foundations.

if you do not like the idea, you can take jazz.
it's easier to 'connect' because ballet is a tad more disciplined and 'stiff'.

also, lyrical dance will be much easier if you're flexible and comfortable with tricks like jumps and turns.

most lyrical dancers use alot of turns to fill in the 'space' in music.

Answer 7

Not really, but you do need to be a trained dancer. Lyrical is a difficult if you don't have the basics of dance down.

Answer 8

No, you don't have to be trained in anything to do lyrical dance. But the more meaningless tricks you know that you can toss into the middle of an evocative passage - like switch leaps, triple+ pirouettes or back flips - the more you can really impress your dance-illiterate audience.

;-^)

Answer 9

You need Ballet to do anything in dance it is the foundation of everything. No matter what you do in dance you need it, everything in dance is based off of that. Plus it makes it easier to pick up other forms of dance.

Answer 10

not exactly...but a good technical background and the ability to convey emotion and feeling is a must....it is mostly about stage presence and feeling...if you really feel it, than it is art. I think of it more as a type of interpretive style with the elements of ballet and jazz