Russia is well known for its ballet. When a ballet is performe
d n the theatre, a story is told to the audiance, not in wordslike in play, but in dancing and movement accompanied by music. The balletdancers have two jobs to fulfil; o thrill and to please the audience bythe beauty of their movements and to make the audience understand what they are doing and feeling at the movement.

This is done by done by mime, using a fixed sign language in which the same signs always represent thesame thing and by free movement and expression.
Ballet dancing is considerd very special; accomplishment in ballet is not easily achieved.
d n the theatre, a story is told to the audiance, not in wordslike in play, but in dancing and movement accompanied by music. The balletdancers have two jobs to fulfil; o thrill and to please the audience bythe beauty of their movements and to make the audience understand what they are doing and feeling at the movement.
This is done by done by mime, using a fixed sign language in which the same signs always represent thesame thing and by free movement and expression.
Ballet dancing is considerd very special; accomplishment in ballet is not easily achieved. The best age to begin traninig for ballet is between 9 and 11. At first only a daily lesson of about an hour is considered sufficient, but as ime goes on, the hours will increase. It takes nine years of hard physical and mentalstudy for a career that can last only for 20 years!
