Can someone like me start taking dance?

[Kristin]

I'm 26, slightly overweight and not particularly flexible, and never seriously taken dance before.

I've wanted to try ballet or modern dance for years but always thought I didn't have the body for it.

There's beginners adult classes offered at a local institution, but from their Facebook page, all of the students look like young, fit, 18 y/o girls. I fear I'd humiliate myself. Is it too late?
Yes. It would just be for personal enrichment.

[unknown friend]

If you want to take it for you then go for it. However if you want to be professional then it won't happen. To be a professional you need to start at a very young age while your bones and muscles are still very flexible and train your body to be able to do many of the moves it does not do naturally.

At your age your bones and muscles won't be as flexible and able to do it but like I said if you just want to learn for yourself then don't let anyone stop you and don't worry about what anyone says its your life so enjoy it.

[Diamonds]

It's never too late. Go for it! You'd absolutely regret it if you didn't try a class or two. I know lots of girls who don't have the body for ballet or modern dance, but they dance with such passion and joy, that you completely overlook their body type. Besides, if it's a big insecurity for you, dance will help you get in shape! The fear of the unknown and the fear of being humiliated is a completely human thing - but it sounds like dance is something you really want to do and you have wanted to do for a long time, so please don't let fear stop you. Dance is SO amazing, and I know you will fall in love with it instantly.

[GypsyDancer464]

If it is something that you really want to do then go for it! Before i started ballet and jazz and hiphop and tap i thought I would just humiliate myself. But now I could never imagine myself EVER not doing dance. I bonded to dance in just one class.