Dance Lessons for a Boy?

Micah was about 7 years old when he first came to me asking about dance classes. He was a different kid. We had put him in sports but he didn't seem to like them. We tried gymnastics, t-ball, and soccer, and he didn't want to have anything to do with them.

When he was in 1st grade, he went on a field trip to see the Ballet West Nutcracker at Christmas time, and then after that it was all he talked about. He wanted to dance too, and not just any kind of dance, he wanted to dance ballet!

Micah had a thing where he walked mostly on the tips of his toes. It was a bad habit, and we had fought to correct it, but nothing much was working. I suppose he already looked like a ballet dancer the way he could prance around on his toes without much thought, but maybe we could stick him in tap classes as well and he would be forced to hit those heels down. Hmmm.....

We looked around and we found a dance class that offered kids from 5 to 8 ballet, jazz, and tap all in one. So, our little Micah boy went to learn to dance.

Here is a video of his first dance experience. This was during the tap section. (Sorry it is sideways!)

I thought how cute for a little boy to be in a dance class. Not so sure what my husband thought, but he was very tolerable and wanted to give Micah a chance to try something new that he wanted to do, so he allowed it. Cute Micah was the only boy in the whole dance studio, but he seemed so happy and enjoyed it.

We started him in dance in April of 2007 when he was 8 years old, and he was able to perform in his first dance recital 2 months later. He looked so cute in his little yellow suspenders and bow tie!

Here he is performing "Banana Phone":