Posted on 02/06/2016 2:27:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
Meet young Australian Muslim teen Stephanie Kurlow who hopes to become first hijabi ballerina.
Kurlow, 14, embraced Islam along with her siblings, Australian father and Russian-born mother in 2010 and had initially feared the religion might derail her dream of dancing.
“I think that’s what may have stopped some other Muslims from following a career they want, but I know what I’m doing is right and I’m going to keep doing it,†she told the Sydney Morning herald when asked whether she thought Islam forbade dancing.
Kurlow hopes to turn her dream into reality by raising $10,000 to train full-time at ballet school. She also hopes to become certified to open her own performing arts school in Sydney.
“Dancing is like flying for me. It makes me feel free,†Kurlow told the Daily News website.
Her look might fly in a local student performance, but professional ballet companies have dozens of qualified applicants for each opening. They have no reason to accept a performer who won’t wear what the other corps-de-ballet members wear.
One of my friends has a daughter who has done ballet for years. The daughter is 5’9” tall and strongly built. No matter how well she dances, her chance of a professional opportunity is slight. They don’t have to take a dancer who’s a head taller than the rest of the chorus and too tall and heavy for most partners.
you’re proof that human resources jobs are actually human, instead of far-left (not human). Islam = the worst of fascism and communism.
Well, I need to keep doing interviews, thanks for showing up and bailing partway through.
Nobody needs to pray at an exact time. They want to pray at certain times.
I’m still trying to figure out if every ballerina in Australia is so...chunky.
Good point!
Carly Fiorina wants to be President.
Fortunately for this girl...she will learn to deal with disappointment early in her life.
But they will both feel the same humiliating disappointment.
Lucky how it works out like that. I've had the same experience with people who sent signals that they would be trouble. I was always positive about their qualifications, and my desire to keep their resume on file, but there was always someone more qualified. I hate being less than open, but it's a whole lot better than the lawsuits for telling the truth, whatever your reason for not hiring someone.
Nobody needs to pray at an exact time.
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In Catholic countries right through the mid 20th century, bells for the Angelus rang four times a day. People stopped and prayed.
Priest pray the office each evening, and I think, morning.
Monks and nuns in a variety of religions pray on schedules.
Unless you are at a service, there are no exact needs to pray at any exact time, every day.
These are peoples wants and desires to pray at certain times.
Need. Not want or desire.
“I interviewed a job applicant earlier in the week for an electronics technician position. About a half hour into the interview he needed to pray for 5 or 6 minutes. Thank God he wasn’t the most qualified of the applicants for the job.”
When he came back, did you tell him he didn’t have a prayer of landing that job?
Islam bans music, singing and dance, as well as representational art. There is no 1000 years of “sacred music” coming out of their culture because they destroyed musical instruments when they found them. In the Hadith the prohibitions are listed. There is no art of any value except the geometric shapes that their totalitarian religion allows. Nothing in their Islamic world would even begin to match the art history of the West. -When they take over in Europe, they will destroy those magnificent works. If they had succeeded in taking over Europe, there would never have been a Mozart, a Beethoven, nor a Michaelangelo. It is horrifying to think about. The West owes an immense debt to Charles Martel.
This is why Islam as a religion is anti-human. Islam destroys the artistic creative force that exists naturally in every person. They forbid music, art, dancing and singing. No one in the West dares to speak of this bottomless hole that Islam has dug by stunting the artistic and intellectual growth of billions of people throughout its punishing history. And that is why their lifeless and cruel societies produce murder and rape, even sanction it, because they have little else to offer.
Hope the Aussies keep an eye on these people. Nobody converts to Islam for a good reasons.
She’s way too fat to be a ballerina.
She’s much too heavy. Unless she wants to dance alone, who could lift her and dance? It’s ridiculous.
Very modest, old-fashioned ballerina attire, there. Not what I expected, which was a burkha. I’d envisioned some sort of weird performance art, with a black sack dancing around. If she’s honestly only wanting to be a ballerina with no other agendas, I say fine, nothing wrong with that. Somebody within her religion is going to take issue with even the modest attire she’s wearing, though. Hope she’s prepared for that.
What’s her male chaperone going to do when the male ballet dancer hoists her by the hoo ha?
Stone her?
she’s accepted an absurdity and now wonders if it will affect her life. amazing
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Still more amazing - she is committing a crime punishable by lashes or stoning by her religious cohorts and sees nothing odd. The picture of her doing her thing is all the evidence needed to convict her in her wondrous sharia court. She is the living poster child for the absurd.
OMG! R U serious? They think anybody will hire them if they can’t get through the interview without a break? Unreal!
Thank-you so much for added my depth to the discussion of why Islam is not God inspired. Thew works of art that have been created in His name are astounding when you find them, even made centuries ago by people of little economic means, but in the spirit of giving and community.
God Bless the Christian world.
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