Make your Sim into the ultimate prima ballerina with the help of various ballet mods.
Many people dream of one day becoming a ballet dancer but unfortunately for a lot of us, we will never have the body/flexibility/strength to get there. It’s not an easy skill to learn and requires an extreme level of dedication to get even close. Our sims, however, are not bound by the same restrictions. Anything you want your sim to achieve is possible with custom content and imagination! So let’s look at how you can turn your sim into a premiere dancer with some ballet mods.
Ballet Mods to Pirouette
Although there’s no full-on Ballet Dancer lifestyle for The Sims 4 (at least not yet anyway) you can use different types of custom content to give your Sims the look & experience. Some of these creations get really, really close!
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Ballet Poses
In a lot of cases players who are looking to make their sim a ballerina are doing it for storytelling purposes, so capturing good screenshots is the main goal. With a few nicely composed images you can sell a story quite easily.
Dancing Series – Ballet
This posepack by RayGun comes with 10 individual poses for masc or femme-framed ballet dancers and the poses are expressive, dynamic, and beautifully realistic.
Classic Dance – Couple – Posepack Part 1
For couples’ dances, try out this pose collection by Blogalltheloveblr which features 4 graceful and dramatic poses for a pair of ballet dancers.
Ballet Animations
For an even more immersive experience, it’s time to dance! With the help of animations, you can get your sims to do pretty much anything; all you need is an animation pack and a pose player mod. There are lots of lovely ballet animations out there with some even being captured based on an actual human performance!
“Harlequinade” Kids Classical Ballet Variation
The Harlequinade is a comical love story with the classic “daughter wants to marry for love but her father wants her to marry for money” trope and has existed in ballet for over a century. This animation set by 1SinfulKiss gives us a version of the choreography for Children and comes in 2 variations depending on the style of dance you prefer.
Balanchine Ballet Challenge (Sims 4 Animation)
This little section of ballet was popular on TikTok to the point of starting a trend in 2023, and Nyx Sting got in on it by bringing us an animated version for use with our sims. It’s a short but energetic piece if you’re looking for a more kinetic animation.
The Sims 4 Ballet Animation Pack
This animation pack has animations with and without a barre so you can capture practice & performance moves all in one pack!
(Creator GamingTweety offers a free version of this animation and a “full” version that costs $ 1 USD, however, no information has been provided on the difference between the two versions.)
Realistic Dance Ballet #1
This lovely ballet animation by Steven Studios is graceful & realistic, even sneaking in a moment of almost-lost balance toward the end of the dance.
See the whole animation here.
“Realistic Ballet #2” Animation Pack
A motion-captured ballet animation by Steven Studios gives your dancing sim the most lifelike portrayal of a ballet pro, properly capturing the weight of each moment and the effortlessness with which the dancer performs the routine.
See the whole animation here.
Ballet Mods
Though there’s a noticeable lack of functional ballet mods out there for our sims, we do have one item to share that brings actual, meaningful gameplay to The Sims 4!
Sims 4 Ballet Barre Mod (Adults and Kids)
Ramping it up a bit we have this awesome ballet barre made by Mercuryfoam. Children and older can use the barre to practice and train their Dance skills, and those with level 4 or above in the skill can mentor others. When practicing your sims can still participate in other interactions at the same time, like chatting with other sims, but when they’re training it’s serious business and the sim will not be interrupted.
Meanwhile, other sims can watch, heckle, and mentor those using the barre. The barre can be used by multiple sims at once so you can have a whole dance studio practicing together at the same time!
Mod: Ballet Skill
The new Ballet Skill Mod by JaneSimsten comes the closest by far to giving your sims a realistic Ballerina experience! This comprehensive mod comes with a new Ballet Skill, items for practicing the skill, a new career, and Maxis-match clothing for use in the Ballet studio or as part of the career! JaneSimsten made Ballet Dancing available as a Club Activity so you can have Ballet practice clubs, and the career is designed to be school schedule-friendly in the early levels so your sims can get started on the career before they graduate.
The Finale
Although your sims can’t currently perform Swan Lake or The Nutcracker in the world of The Sims 4, there is a delightful selection of ballet mods that allow us to “fake it” in our games. Whether you’re taking simple screenshots, making machinima, or want your sims practicing barre before completing a professional-level dance animation, there’s a ballet mod out there for you to try. Would you like to see ballet legitimately come to the game? What about other hobbies/activities? Let us know in the comments below and happy simming!
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