>>>No problem. I too came to this web site looking for encouragement. I started last May at 15. My teachers are very supportive. I was cast in the Nutcracker last December without even a year of ballet. Since then I've been taking classes with 3 men and the rest women. Some girls are my age and their very good so are the guys (their older). So I came to this web wandering the same thing. I was encouraged to countinue so I have. So thank you for believing in my advice (I believe) and I hope to countinue to write to you on this web site for later times! P.S. A wounderfull late male starter is Cornel Crabtree and check the NY City Ballet for other great male dancers who started late! GO FOR IT![/i]