Scottish Ballet: Forty Winks Workshop
Christmas was pretty hectic with Alex working many of the days, however we did have a couple of respite days in between Christmas and New Year and on one of our days off we took Erin along to a ballet workshop at the newly refurbished museum of Scotland. Incidently the museum looks amazing, and it’s free, so well worth a visit if you’re in town.
We headed up to the learning centre where the Scottish Ballet were running workshops for girls and boys 3-9yrs. The one we were at was pretty busy with not far off twenty little girls (no boys at this one), some sporting ballet shoes and leotards, others like Erin were just in comfortable clothes.
The workshops are designed to encourage the children to listen and respond to music and are accompanied by a keyboardist and a variety of other instruments. It was obvious that many of the girls were already at ballet classes but ballet experience wasn’t necessary.
I didn’t sit in on the workshop too long as I didn’t want to put them off but what I saw looked fun. The girls were all pretending to be different characters and jumping and creeping – all were having a really good time.
At £6 for an hour I would definitely check out the workshops – the last lot were advertised on the museum website.
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