I could be in a class with girls my age for ballet or modern dance, I was still skinny enough and a little strong and would be pretty from the exercise dancing. 1 class is jazz/tap/lyrical, too. There's competition, even. The ballet teacher didn't want me there interfering with her ballerina arrangements, but she wasn't in charge. I didn't look at another ballet school and was with the big class, which was younger girls. My age and up was big girls, 3, and my age a little older was softball, and they were just hanging out and done learning and I was just starting. This was after my 1st year of high school was over. So, I was in ballet at a modern dance school for 2 1/2 years with younger girls until the last year 1 or 2 girls 1 year older not very advanced kinda fun then but not enough still. I kinda liked the teacher, age like 20 and Latina and pretty mature of course compared to me. Good enough but maybe more modern than ballet unfortunately. She was a dental assistant as she talked about and was gonna teach full time, ballet or dance. She probably trained where my next ballet teacher did, the real ballet school, though I didn't know she was from here.. either of them.