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Here is what I want to do... How does it sound ?

i love dance ! after breaking my arm in tumbling, and giving it up, along with being a cheerleader, i started dance. here are the dance styles that i want to take. i want to take modern, lyrical, contemporary, and jazz. i already take ballet, and pointe. i am actually really really good at it, and enjoy it a ton. anyways, would asking my mom if i could have two of these four styles of dance for christmas be okay? i am going to be taking ballet, pointe, and then two more during the week. in your opinion, which two of those four do you like the best, and why would you pick them? thanks so much for your help ! *oh, if there is another style of dance that i should try that i didn't list, then please tell me, and say why you like to dance that style. again, thanks !*

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1. I don't think you should pic 2,just pic modern its the best option
2. Based in your other questions where you asked about attending a ballet academy and becoming a professional ballet dancer or your other option of going to college for dance, I think you should add 2 more ballet classes. Any good college dance program you will have to audition in ballet to get in. Only one ballet technique class and one pointe class, wont do it. Actually, you may not even have to dance en pointe for your college audition, unless you pick one of the few ballet focus schools like Butler or Indiana. However, the dancers that go to those schools are dancers trained in top ballet academies who didn't make it into a ballet company, so they would have been taking 17 or 18 ballet classes a week not 2 and that would be your competition. Most dance majors are contemporary focus. That does not mean "contemporary" classes because contemporary dance has no technique of it's own. It is the choreography that makes it contemporary. It means an audition and classes in both ballet and modern dance. Only recreational dance schools that do recitals or competitions have a separate "contemporary class" (unless they are calling a mixed modern genre that.) If you have given up on those ideas and this is just for fun, then take what ever you like. If you still have any hopes of a career in dance, then more ballet and perhaps add one modern class too if it is a real modern genre like Graham, Horton or Limon. There is no such thing as professional lyrical dance, so that would be a waste of time. Lyrical dance has no technique of it's own but uses mostly ballet with a little jazz thrown into the mix. Good luck in what ever you decide to do.
3. You need to concentrate on one type of dance and master that one. It is not good enough to be good at many. It is great to be great at one.