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Dance School Drops Ballet from Auditions for Being ‘Built Around White European Ideas’
breitbart ^ | 17 Jul 2022 | JACK MONTGOMERY

Posted on 07/17/2022 3:12:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Britain’s Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) because it is “built around white European ideas” and is too “gendered”.

The school has dropped ballet from its auditions process because of its “potentially contentious nature”, according to The Telegraph.

“It is essentially an elitist form. Young people need to pay to take ballet classes as a general rule and for a vast number of potential students, they’ve not had access to ballet,” explained the head of undergraduate studies at the dance school, Francesca McCarthy, in comments to the notionally right-leaning newspaper.

“It is a very specific form that is built around particular white European ideas and body shapes that are often alienating to young people who do not fit that aesthetic ideal,” she asserted.

“There are issues relating to body, money, language and movement vocabulary.”

McCarthy also complained that ballet “has strongly gendered roots in terms of the movement vocabulary,” referencing the fact that “most of [the NSCD’s] ballet staff were trained at a time where divisions in the teaching of ballet were clear and men lifted women.”

She conceded that over time there was “a shift”, but insisted that the status quo is “still problematic in relation to [the] inclusion of non-binary and trans dancers.”

Gendered language in ballet is also supposed to be an issue, with The Telegraph noting concerns about the fact that their is a clear division between female ballerinas and male danseurs in ballet.

Implicit gender roles and gendered language is evidently a matter of great concern to the NSCD, with McCarthy saying that the use of gender-neutral terms like “dancers/people/folk/everyone/everybody” are encouraged and efforts made to “try and embed the use of they in terms of pronouns in order to not make assumptions about a dancer’s identity”.

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1 posted on 07/17/2022 3:12:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Classes in “Shaking your ass like a whore” will continue.


2 posted on 07/17/2022 3:14:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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Less ballet, more shuckin, jivin’ and twerking.


3 posted on 07/17/2022 3:16:02 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Yeah they’re replacing ballet with filthy obscene twerking classes.


4 posted on 07/17/2022 3:16:43 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: MarvinStinson

Democrat Tiara Mack will be giving classes


5 posted on 07/17/2022 3:16:51 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ah crap.... You owe me a new laptop. Just spit beer out all over mine.


6 posted on 07/17/2022 3:17:59 PM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Can you picture Stacy Abrams in a tutu?


7 posted on 07/17/2022 3:18:09 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: MarvinStinson

movement vocabulary- ebonical movement vocabulary?


8 posted on 07/17/2022 3:19:02 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: MarvinStinson

Time for the paying white customers to drop this woke outfit.


9 posted on 07/17/2022 3:19:10 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: MarvinStinson; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks MarvinStinson.

10 posted on 07/17/2022 3:19:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MarvinStinson
Heck, at least the ballet dancers in Harrison Bergeron could still dance if they used enough handicaps. And even the most vicious nomenklatura at the hights of the Soviet Terror were patrons of ballet. We are entering a self imposed dark age.
11 posted on 07/17/2022 3:21:11 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: ClearCase_guy

ROFL


12 posted on 07/17/2022 3:21:55 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: MarvinStinson

Walking with the ball 360 slam dunk gendered movement vocabulary is ok.
Walking around grabbing ones crotch movement vocabulary is ok.
So don’t worry.


13 posted on 07/17/2022 3:23:27 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Bullish

I’d argue those are tribal in origin. Same argument against ballet. Except ballet is a refined dance where twerking resembles what you see on nature shows when animals try to mate.


14 posted on 07/17/2022 3:23:33 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MarvinStinson

I’m 72 and don’t have many years left, but I’ll probably still be alive when they make it a crime to be white.

Imagine this” Twerking is a very specific form that is built around black African ideas and body shapes that are often alienating to young people who do not fit that aesthetic ideal”


15 posted on 07/17/2022 3:25:27 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: MarvinStinson

No ballet?

Might as well put a padlock on the chain on the front door.

This reminds me in a strange connection way to something that
happened to my wife and I in the early 2000s.

She had a nice friend who offered her some tickets to a
music presentation that was going to be at Cal Tech.

We went mainly to show some support for her friend, not
knowing exactly what we’d see. Now I say that recalling
that even though we didn’t know exactly what we’d see, we
did expect it to be some form of music we could appreciate
even if it wasn’t our exact style.

Out came the bongos and other types of instruments, some
of which barely resembled anything I’d ever seen before.

It was music right out of deepest darkest Africa. It wasn’t
creative, entertaining, enlightening, interesting, or
something that would fall under any other category you
might think you could listen to and get something out of it.

It was noise, and I mean that in the real sense. It was
not what I would term music. The melody was bad. The
drum beats weren’t interesting... it was just noise.

My wife and I looked at each other with frozen winces on
our face. We kept it to ourselves, and graciously thanked
the woman for the nice tickets to this very interesting
show.

The reason I mention this, is if they go this route for
entertainment, there will be no ‘White culture’ music
left.

We’ll be hearing basically what my wife and I heard all
those years ago.

Cancelling out ballet classes, boy that’s right in line
with what we saw going on all those years ago.

You’re going to love it...

Get ready for “K-Rock” er, “K-Skull Bones” on FM 10-666!


16 posted on 07/17/2022 3:26:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Waiting for the “POC Only” drinking-fountains. White is the New Black.


17 posted on 07/17/2022 3:26:40 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: MarvinStinson

Good lord Francesca McCarthy is one ugly slag.

https://www.nscd.ac.uk/people/francesca-mccarthy/


18 posted on 07/17/2022 3:28:25 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Levy78

I knew it! Culture destroying LGBT trash

“Marrying my wonderful wife and recently adopting our two little boys, has made me even more acutely aware of the challenges experienced by young people today. We are faced with a number of social, economic and environmental challenges which are felt as an immense pressure by many young people.”


19 posted on 07/17/2022 3:30:02 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: MarvinStinson

Hmmm..certain kinds of bigoted generalizations are exceptable..even encouraged.


20 posted on 07/17/2022 3:30:50 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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