When I was in school, there was a lot of chaos in my life and then I took martial arts and it brought discipline and connected mind and body, the same thing with ballet, it’s an incredible foundation for that.
When I give skate classes and kids just come into the skate park, and start running around and don’t listen… that makes it very complicated for me… and I don’t want anyone to get hurt, so it would be the best thing for them to take ballet at school and learn to channel their energy so when they got to skating, they come with a fresh mindset, and they would appreciate it more, they would be more careful, they would listen more and probably learn much faster, and so that’s where you get that difference. It would make such a difference.
Football players do it.
Basketball players do it.
There’s so many people that do it, and we don’t necessarily know about it.
Why are these people doing it? Now you know.
It [ballet] is probably the most powerful thing that could happen to the school system. I truly believe that.