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>>19547261
Hyperextension is a bless for ballet.
Hard to work, but delivers good lines.

Only one pic of her doing ballet I've found so far...

http://taobaofreak.com/1377.html

For the costume and porte de bras, it could be either Giselle (1st act variation) or Coppelia (Swanhilda's entrance). I'm inclined to believe it's the second one because Giselle variations are far beyond the reach of a pubescent girl. Anyway, apart from being always the one with the first or second best grades in her school, that page tells us about her old schedule (4 years old until entering Nogi) which used to be like this:

> Monday - Maths
> Tuesday - Ballet
> Wednesday - Calligraphy
> Thursday - English
> Friday - Piano
> Saturday - Piano
> Sunday - Ballet

It sounds impressive alright but, truth to be told, it's also revealing of a fair amount of posery. Maybe she could pull out becoming a piano concertist with only 2 days of weakly practice because she had this huge talent for it, but no one, not even someone with an insane talent (like Daniil Simkin level of insane talent), can afford not taking at least one daily class and expect to have a future in ballet at all. For anyone older than, say, 10 years old, only 2 days a week of ballet lessons is a joke.

Don't get me wrong: I like and admire Ikuchan very very much. But now it seems obvious to me that her public image of prodigy child could have been considerably inflated, if not by lies, at least by convenient omissions.