45-year-old Toronto mom unexpectedly gets into National Ballet School but there's a hitch Toronto Ballet
The chances of becoming a professional ballet dancer are slim for anyone, including the many girls and boys who start taking lessons as tykes and progress through more than a decade of RAD exams only to retire as teens.
Out of sheer curiosity, in need of some balance in her hectic life, she stepped into a ballet studio. "It made me feel at home in my body, even though I was the opposite of the petite-pretty ballerina type. I was too tall for ballet, and I had just quit playing ice hockey ," she said of her new hobby.
After a"demanding audition" for the teacher training program, where Pyrka says"the typical applicant is in their early 20s and has trained in ballet since childhood," the 45-year-old dance was cut in the first round.
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