We don't have dance lessons per se out here, but Child Elder started calisthenics when she was about 5, which seems pretty standard. They had a class below for kindy age kids.

She turned out to be horrendously uncoordinated and totally useless at following instructions, so my kid turned out to be THAT kid put riiiiight at the back of the group doing twirls the opposite way to all the other kids 10 seconds late while the other 20 or so kids were all doing just fine. She is academically very bright and used to being the center of attention so she absolutely hated calisthenics and ended up being very upset and begging to quit. They've put her in the dark back corner of every dancy thing she's been in for school since then too, usually with the excuse she's tall but its pretty obvious the real reason. There's always one and *someone* has to be their mother ...

Fastforward 3 years and one of her friends does calisthenics, so she has selective memory and thought she was brilliant at it and wants to join up again and is ****ed at me that I won't let her.

She's fine doing freestyle disco dancing though - the boys love her So in her head she's a fantastic dancer and always has been ...