Ds1 (nearly 8) has decided he wants to start ballet lessons. He's been scouring YouTube for ballet tutorials and trying to copy them and he does seem serious.
He already does street/hiphop and take parts in regular shows and he doesn't want to give this up, but wants to learn ballet as well.
My concern is that we've already missed the boat and that 8 is too old to start. Most 8 year olds doing ballet seem to have been doing it since 3/4. Also that ballet is a world away from street and hiphop - is it sensible to try and mix in that way or does he need to make a choice and stick to one? The other thing is that physique wise he's the very opposite of your typical ballet dancer - he's very very tall but also broad and big built, and whilst he's got good rythym and excels in his current dance class, I can't imagine him being graceful enough for ballet?
Any views appreciated....he's fairly sensitive and I suspect would really take it to heart if he started ballet and then was unable to keep up because of his age/build/other dancing background. If there's little chance of him doing well I'd rather try and gently steer him away from ballet iyswim?