We live deep in the Normandy countryside so the nearest live performances are always an hour or more away and don't start until 8.30, so we haven't made it to one yet. There is a TV channel, Arte, which has quite a lot of ballet and documentaries in French so that helps. I visit the UK (south-east) quite often so tend to go to London with my daughter who loves ballet as well. The girls are nine and six, the elder may try and get into a secondary school specialising in performing arts, but I don't think they would go for a ballet school. I love the fact that they enjoy dancing, but I am not sure about the life of a ballet dancer really, I think it must be very hard.
Yes the Cuban ballet were wonderful dancers, but the choreography was very strict and old-fashioned, still in the style of Alicia Alonso when we saw them.