Netta Walker, 24, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, is hoping to encourage many more youngsters will take up ballet by helping to produce a CD and DVD that will bring ballet lessons to your living room. About Netta At the tender age of two Netta could be found dancing around her room in a pretty yellow dress and plimsols. By the age of ten she new that ballet was her future. Netta grew up in Sutton in Ashfield but at 13 she ventured to pastures new to seek out her professional ballet career. "I find ballet magical, the way the dancers move with such grace."
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After six more years training she achieved a diploma in professional classical ballet and joined a ballet company in London. Netta's spent several years in different companies, touring the UK and Europe and working with some of the top ballet names. Learn at home Now Netta has used her ballet skills to create a special DVD, made at Nottingham Trent University, that is aimed at teaching children how to do ballet at home. Wannabe ballerinas are encouraged to interpret a story through dance without the use of words, gliding around the room to The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Netta promises relaxed and easy to understand lessons which the children can relate to. The idea behind bringing ballet into your home is to encourage more youngsters to take up the art form. "Sometimes if parents have got more than one child they cannot always afford to send their children to ballet lessons." "This gives beginners the chance to see if they like it and also a chance for those who might be a little more shy (boys are we talking about you!) to give it a go." The CD and DVD is called Ballerina Magic and is in supermarkets now. Back in Nottinghamshire Netta's now returned to her home stomping ground to teach a new generation of dancers at the school where she herself learnt to pirouette, the Christine March School of Dance in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, as well as the Alkins School of Ballet, Staffordshire. | 
