Nuryev is certainly not gay.
That would have been news to him:
“Nuryev is certainly not gay.”
No, nor Barishnikov, nor Gudunov. It’s a cultural thing.
Culturally, in the US, ballet is seen as feminine and several sports are seen as masculine. To enroll boys in ballet or girls in football is going against the norm.
I’m not saying it’s wrong, I’m just saying, it’s not typical.
In Russian, most dancers, ballroom included, seem very much hetero and I’m sure there’s not much baggage to enrolling your son.
I would not enroll my son in ballet as long as I lived in the U.S. Tap dancing, maybe. The action of enrolling in ballet means something here that it doesn’t in, say, Russia.
Similarly, I am enrolling my daughter in soccer, but I wouldn’t enroll her in rugby or football.