My ballet teacher’s more aggressive than your ballet teacher

Aggressive ballet teachers! Have you had them?

I am a bit of a ballet slut, and go to lots of ballet classes taught by different teachers.

1. K – she pinches people’s bottoms.

2. L – she screams! At the top of her lungs!

3. A – she wears an austere black traditional Chinese robe (the ones for men) and prods us with a stick.

4. S – She just looks at us with truckloads of disappointment in her eyes after every bar exercise and says, “I won’t say anything anymore, I will give you more chances to prove yourselves…”

5. M – he is my only male teacher, and the students love him. He is very camp, very fabulous, and generally makes us feel very safe and taken care of. Today, however, was the second time in a row Peter, the pianist accompanist, abandoned him without even leaving him a message, which made him very aggressive indeed. After all, he had to both sing and teach.

“Stand in a row, we’ll do adagio now. If any of you get this wrong, I will shoot you.”

“I have a coathanger *waves metal coathanger* I know how to use it. I have seen American Psycho.”

“NO ONE BUT ME GETS TO SING!!!” – M in response to someone humming the tune he was singing.

“Let’s all give Peter (the accompanist) a round of applause for his hard work.” He then mock-claps, then flicks his fingers at the empty piano for the whole class to see.

We were all doubled-over laughing XD Do you have aggressive teachers?

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