Ballet classes to celebrate the Seniors Festival

BALLET teacher Wendy Crellin is welcoming beginners over the age of sixty to free classes at Rescue Station Arts in Wonthaggi to celebrate the Senior’s Festival.
Wendy has been teaching senior’s ballet classes for over two years, having originally trained at the renowned Borovansky Academy of Russian Ballet in Melbourne and then at the National Theatre. 
Everyone is welcome and most of the current participants have either always wanted to dance but never had the opportunity or are returning to it after many decades.
Women come to class from far and wide including Cowes, Coronet Bay and Leongatha, while most are in their sixties or seventies, the oldest student is 89 years young. 
Classes are set to music, are low impact but challenging and help to improve balance, flexibility and strength particularly in ankles and hips. 
The dancers enjoy the social side of the class and networking, the physical aspects, including better balance and fitness as well as learning something new and challenging themselves. 
Classes involve warm up exercises followed by barre work and then perfecting dancing moves, with the beginners currently working on cygnets from Swan Lake. 
Wendy was born in Wonthaggi and retuned with her husband and three children, where she taught classes for a while but had to stop because of many other commitments.
She explained that when she turned eighty, she said to her daughter, 
“I want to dance before I die.”
Her daughter asked what was stopping her, and Wendy replied “Well, not much.” 
So began her classes, which quickly became popular and she now holds three classes a week and they are free for members. 
Men and women are welcome to join in on class, held on Tuesday October 24 and Thursday October 26 from 10:30 – 11:30 at the Rescue Station Arts, Wonthaggi. 
For more information go to rescuestationarts@gmail.com and to book call Wendy on 0408 721 949.