--- title: Dads Daughter Ballet Dance VIDEO, PHOTOS description: Dads joined their daughters to dance in a memorable ballet class for Valentine's Day at the Philadelphia Dance Center. canonical: https://time.com/4673637/dad-daugheter-ballet/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-16T22:12:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:12.019Z og:title: You Need to Watch These Dads Do Ballet with Their Daughters og:description: It's a performance you won't want to miss og:url: https://time.com/4673637/dad-daugheter-ballet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Need to Watch These Dads Do Ballet with Their Daughters twitter:description: It's a performance you won't want to miss twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Dads Doing Ballet With Their Daughters Is the Only Thing You Need to Watch Today  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 16, 2017 10:12 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 16, 2017 10:12 PM UTC During [Valentine’s Day](http://time.com/4662675/valentines-day-heart-shape-origins/), some enthusiastic new students joined their daughters in ballet class for a a night of dancing: dads. The fathers of ballerinas were invited to participate in a daddy daughter dance class at the Philadelphia Dance Center this year, and the performances that resulted were both heartwarming and hilarious. In video clips posted to the dance school’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, dads learn how to pirouette and dance to [“Waltz of the Flowers” from “The Nutcracker Suite,”](http://time.com/3640792/nutcracker-american-history/) as well as performing lifts with their daughters. Some of the dads really got into the spirit of the dance class and sported tutus. The mothers of students were also invited to join their kids for hip hop classes and from the looks of it, the moms fared a little better than the dads. See all the dancing below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4673637/dad-daugheter-ballet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4673637/dad-daugheter-ballet/"},"headline":"These Dads Doing Ballet With Their Daughters Is the Only Thing You Need to Watch Today","datePublished":"2017-02-16T22:12:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:12.019Z","description":"It's a performance you won't want to miss","url":"https://time.com/4673637/dad-daugheter-ballet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Internet","viral","kids","dance","Funny","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4673637/dad-daugheter-ballet/","name":"These Dads Doing Ballet With Their Daughters Is the Only Thing You Need to Watch Today"}}]}] ```