It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.
Martha Graham
Mastering the classic balette techniques and performing them on the highest level is incredibly hard. It takes years of training and everyday practice. To improve, stay in condition, master the techniques the active dancer has to practice 1 or 2 hours a day at least.
If there's anybody out there, who knows this technique, knows, that it's necessary, since the moves of classical balett are so strict, and so based on instincts, that the desired effect can be achieved only by hard work. Even the slightest change of the original pattern can ruin the whole thing for the audience. Of course balett-techniques and the classic traning aren't only used by classical balett dancers and choirs.
Many types of contemporary dance takes balett as it's base. If somebody got this traning and learned this technique earns such a high level of coordination, that it allows him or her to master other forms of dances quickly and deepgoing.
'A dancer's got 25 active years, and there isn't really a legacy the 'servants of the moment' can leave behind. Even the best of this art has very few documented footage of themselves, and the reason for that is, artists rarely document their lives.'
Dr. Gábor Bolvári-Takács PhD, academic
In my opinion what I can do to help is, as a photographer who is fond of dance, that I publish as much as I can about the photographed performances as I can, to share with the public.
