Sentence examples for take up ballet from inspiring English sources

A few eyebrows were also raised at the news that he had allowed his son to take up ballet.

NOW PLAYING BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL Fans of Lee Hall and Stephen Daldry's 2000 movie, set in northern England in the mid-nineteen-eighties, about a boy who quits boxing to take up ballet, may notice that Daldry's musical adaptation, with songs by Elton John, lacks a few of the film's charms — nuanced characters, the memorable final scene, T. Rex.

When Peter Linton was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease four years ago, his first thought wasn't to take up ballet.

"I'm going to keep competing until I get beaten every time...and then I'll take up ballet or something".

"I really wanted to take up ballet when I was at school but I thought I would get bullied," says the former teacher and sports coach.

The popularity of the school may be part of a trend that is seeing more boys take up ballet and other forms of dance.

At 62, Ms. Hays took up ballet.

More recently, he took up ballet again for his role as a controlling artistic director in Black Swan – a rigorous training regime that left him with multiple blisters "and not only on my feet.

With cheeky hints at Chariots of Fire in the staccato synth soundtrack, and even Billy Elliot in the dialogue ("It's not like I'm taking up ballet!"), this is a weirdly embellished, fictionalised and mythologised biopic, with Taron Egerton gamely impersonating the bespectacled Olympian.

She tells me that she has taken up ballet classes in recent years, and stands to show me the extra strips of fabric her dressmaker has inserted in her pencil skirt, because "still I am skinny, but now my bottom is more round.

"Many boys are taking up ballet for the first time and loving it," he says.