WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SELF-INDULGENT BALLET DRIVEL.
Dancers are obsessed with bodies, especially their own. And even though I have not been a dancer dancer for some time now, I still dance in front of my young students in their ballet classes (and wall-to-wall mirrors) five and sometimes six days a week; I am keenly aware [...]
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As the founding director of a small ballet school, I think about this ridiculous dichotomy just about every single day: the overwhelming majority of children in most small ballet schools (and that’s most of the ballet students on the planet) do not resemble children in the world’s premiere ballet schools, where young hopefuls are scrutinized [...]
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