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”.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
They decided to drop ballet. Fine, when all is said, but they had to make a pandering screed of a statement to allow for how very woke and racially sensitive, albeit in a pandering racist way of doing it.
Some like ballet. Some like modern. To slam a dance on racial lines is racist.
How sad...I got to see Barishkinov in Bolshoi Ballet in about 1989...it was fantastic, unbelievable. Reducing world to 3rd world levels is so stupid.
Good news, my degree in Transexual Dance Theory may be helpful as an instructor at this School of Twerk & Genital Flashing. Am sure parents can’t wait to sign up their daughters, all of whom really want to be ballerinas.
.
“Get woke, go broke.”
hitlerian
next thing you know grocery stores will be called to mat
Waiting for the day when the kind, respectful people get really angry.
Fast approaching “Lord of the Flies”!
She’s a real women..she is a women, right?
Might as well tear down your buildings and make huts from whatever you can gather. Ditch your white man's clothes too and forget traveling by motor vehicle. You walk everywhere now and take off those shoes. Also stay off those white ass roads. You can walk on the ground. Speaking of the ground. Your water source is now groundwater. No toilets, let alone TP. The Muslims can teach you about how that works. Stupid (^$#T)*&#@
“I got to see Barishkinov in Bolshoi Ballet...”
Lucky you! I never got the chance to see the master in person. Watching him dance on film was like watching a man defy gravity.
Simply breathtaking.
She wouldn’t look too bad if she had proper dental treatment. Braces would have been good, but it looks like they don’t even clean their teeth in England.
Better pack a lunch.
There are very talented ballet dancers who happen to be black where I live 🤪
Guess they’ll be getting rid of shag lessons too.
“ No ballet?”
Cue the fat lady!
+1
I would prep for an earthquake here in the Southeast in case Stacy Abrams falls.
So I guess they’ll keep stripper pole 101.
Twerking ain’t dancing
Well, that dancing school won’t be sending anybody to audition for the Bolshoi...or even the NYC Ballet.
Way to go, idiots!
> built around white European ideas
But the school is in England so why not?
Twerking for Dollars.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.