Is it possible to learn ballet online?

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Ballet is all about perfection of movement and there is only one right way to do things within each ballet method. Copying the foot and arm positions you see in a video wont mean that you are doing it correctly. You need to be engaging the right muscles and in proper body alignment to get there even when it is as simple as the 5 basic positions of ballet. That is hard enough to do with a teacher's eyes and hands on you for corrections. If you don't do it correctly, aside of building poor habits that will be harder to break once you get real training, you can get injured. Ballet all comes from your turnout and you need to learn to engage the muscles deep within your hips and pelvic floor. Not an easy task and impossible if you don't have a teacher to show you. Another major factor is that you need a sprung or floating floor to work on or you will get joint injuries, shin splints, possible stress fractures and most definitely chronic achilles tendinitis if you put any real time into it. You really cannot work on a floor that has no "give.".
Trying to learn ballet online is not like learning sign language or drawing. It is not even like leaning other dance styles like street or club dance or hip hop. That is possible to do. Trying to learn ballet online is like trying to learn how to fly a plane online or how too swim online without any water to swim in.
Find a teen beginner ballet class or teen/adult beginner class and start enjoying ballet. FYI the title "ballerina" is the title given to the top female ballet dancer in a professional ballet company. Most professional ballet dancers ar not ballerinas.