me: ugh I feel so gross I need to take a shower
my sister: why? do you even sweat in ballet class?
me: nahh we just skip around in tutus for a couple hours and then call it a day
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I’m so desperate to go to ballet class and feel that part of happiness whenever I go that it’s killing me.
Me trying to explain the plot of a ballet to someone:
"…and then he gets high off his ass on opium and hallucinates his dead girlfriend who was killed by his bitch fiancé and then at the wedding a cyclone kills everyone. Literally, it kills everyone. Anyway I love that story o m g ballet is so beautiful *sheds single tear*"
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Makes me laugh how when footballers get tripped up they roll around dramatically on the floor like crying but Tamara Rojo’s appendix burst on stage and David Hallberg hurt his ankle on his first entrance in sleeping beauty and completed the whole ballet, but football is…
no, i do not starve myself. in fact i probably eat a lot more than most people
no, i do not wear tutus “like the ones from iparty”
no, i am not cute. I’m much stronger than most people
no, ballet isn’t easy, don’t try to tell me it is
no, i do not do “the toe thing” its called pointe
no, i am...
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Q: I used to dance then quit, can I still be a ballet dancer?
A: If you enjoy dancing, dance!
Q: I just started dancing at 14/15/16, can I still be a ballet dancer? Is it too late?
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SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO AREN’T SUPER SKINNY
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO AREN’T WHITE
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO HAVEN’T BEEN DANCING SINCE THEY WERE FOUR
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO STRUGGLE WITH BODY IMAGE
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO DEIFY THE NORM, WORK HARD, AND LOVE TO DANCE
BECAUSE YOU DESERVE TO DANCE JUST AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE
I urge you all to take the time to read this wonderful article written by a ballet dancer, nutritionist, and dear friend of mine:
"I have always been told by friends, family members, and others not particularly familiar with the physical demands of ballet that I am thin, in-shape, and have a healthy-looking body. Outside of the ballet studio I agree with them. I am able to walk outside and feel proud about the way I look. I feel amazing. I feel healthy. When I walk into the studio, my opinions about my apparently “thin, in-shape body” are completely warped. The extreme pressures to be thin and “perfect” overwhelm me.
Many dancers struggle with the pressures of being thin. George Balanchine, co-founder of America’s first world class ballet school and choreographer of over 400 works for the stage, set the standard for the “perfect ballet body”. He favored dancers with long, lean legs with slight hypertension and feet with high insteps and arches. He wanted dancers with long necks, small heads, perfect turnout, and extreme flexibility at a height of around 5’6. Balanchine often even said that he wanted to see a dancer’s bones and little to no body fat. As little as 2% of people actually have this body type. Still, dancers everywhere are pressured by instructors, artistic directors, and even themselves to achieve that perfection. Oftentimes, this is attempted through disordered eating and malnutrition, essentially affecting the dancer’s overall ability to perform well.
I remember constantly comparing myself to the bodies of other dancers. It was something I did without even knowing it, but I couldn’t stop it. No matter how well I danced, I always felt it would look better if I had that “perfect body”. I envied over dancers with amazing bodies. Perhaps it was due to the fact that I was always told we have to look light, fragile, and lengthy. It’s obvious that thinner dancers with long legs have more appealing lines. I often tried to lose weight to achieve those beautiful lines. I began to realize, however, that it wasn’t the weight keeping me from achieving perfect lines. It was my short legs, long torso, and curves. It was genetics; something completely out of my control.
Many dancers, and even instructors or artistic directors, mistake the pressure to have lengthy, beautiful lines and a light, airy appearance as a requirement to be unnecessarily thin. Dancers believe extreme thinness will make their dancing look more beautiful, airy, and dainty. In order to achieve faster results, dancers often result in disordered eating such as anorexia and bulimia. This leaves them malnourished. Without proper nutrients, there is nothing to provide energy to the dancer’s body. We can’t help our genetics. We can’t help how our bones form or how fat distributes on our bodies. Despite outside and personal pressures to be extremely thin, dancers must realize it is the dancers’ artistry, technique, and overall passion for the movements that makes them appealing to an audience. Wouldn’t you rather see a healthy-looking dancer with artistry and passion for the art than a malnourished dancer struggling to find the energy to even perform?”
there’s something about boys that do ballet that is 8263828266261x more attractive and i don’t know what it is
Most probs because they do ballet
exactly
the tights have something to do with it
also the “I’m just gonna lift you over my head with one hand and tell you it’s easy” doesn’t hurt
and the vastly superior body to that of a normal man
and the bandana sweat bands
but mainly the booty
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