When Ballet Dream Meets Reality
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ingting Fan started her career as a armature ballet teacher in Zhuhai after the graduation from Guangzhou Institute of Art in 2008. Her initial dream to be ballet dancer was collapsed once she hurt her waist in a performance. “My dream quenched in that accident and all I was thinking through the hard time was making money.” Said Fan. With her mother’s help, Fan opened her first dancing studio, which is basically a simple room with several mirrors. Now, studio is now change to a professional dancing school, with completed teaching structure, time schedules, professional teachers and strict management system, more like a company. Ballet is not the only kind of dance training the school provided. Named as Faner Art Training Organization, it now has become the most
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famous armature dance training organization in Zhuhai. Kids from all over Zhuhai, even Doumen district came here twice a week to pursue their dancing dream with their parents, and the distance may cost some more than 2 hours for some of them. However, the student’s dancing dream is not that “promising” at Fan’s studio because of her “business” dream. “I would like to be called as a successful business woman rather than a dance teacher,” Fan never tries to disguise her economic goal. “And what I am focusing on is to promote this organization to a national level even a world level.” Fan’s organization now started a new business, more like a study abroad agency, to help those kids with special talents in dancing chase a higher educational and dancing degree overseas.
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an is very strict about her students’daily performances, even their attendance because there are always some parents or visitors watching outside. Or to be saying, she is a perfectionism, not only on her students, but herself, with a pair of Chanel earrings. In the dancing class room, old photos of Tingting was hang on the wall back in the days she was still a professional ballet dancer. In the picture, she made elegant pose with her slim body. But now, Fan was rather a plump woman, more sophisticated and experienced.
During the break, Xiaowei is dragging Yiqing all over the classroom. It is so easy for kids to forget the pain as long as there are playing.
Fan will not give up any chances to put her students on stages. She always has her students signed up for kinds of ballet dance performance or competition. Kids are busy learning new dances. However, parents are worrying that their school studies will be influenced by these “after-school” activities.
Fan won’t miss any detail when teaching. Older students are always following her step by step very serious but younger kids are being naughty behind her.
Pain makes the girl’s face twisted. Fan is not cruel, instead, she knows the pain so well. It is the thing that must to be experienced to be an excellent dancer.
It hurts every time they stand on toes but there is no one crying. Fan even has strict requirements on their shoes wearing: shoelaces must be tied well looking.
1. Every movement of Yiqing could be the most standard one. However, she is not Fan’s favorite student because her personality is too shy for Fan. Yiqing is not very comfortable with the camera but Fan asks her to show her best. 2.The advanced class for ballet learning has 15 students. The youngest student is just 5 years old. At the very beginning of the class, they are doing some basic and posture skill training. Fan was late for class the day, so she requested students to prepare as quickly as possible.