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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What a loser question.
Didn’t Fantasia feature hippos in tutus?
I don’t watch Ballet,but this appears to me just another created point to remove any source or display of culture and artistic expression and replaced by ugliness and meaningless
demonstrations.Marxism Maoism wants everyone to be empty and
unfeeling.
So much,for a red neck’s opinion...
In lefty crazyland, a white European country is not allowed to develop its own white European culture.
With this kind of leadership, this school is sure to go bust eventually.
To believe this behavior is any way normal is sick.
Whatever happened to multiculturalism and celebrating our differences???
Yep.
body shapes that are often alienating to young people who do not fit that aesthetic ideal,
= = =
Gettopottomus dancing.
Splashing around in a muddy river.
I’ll consider up “while European” music and culture when they give up while European medicine, electricity, plumbing, transportation, agriculture and everything else.
The Left now focuses on the differences to divide people into different social-identity groups. Identify politics is key to their success.
This is idiotic-one of my aunts owned and operated a dance studio most of her adult life-a cousin owns and operates it now-all the kids in the extended family have attended lessons there at some point over the last 65+ years and still do-even the males in the family for ballroom dancing and popular dancing-yes, all the dirty dancing is taught, too-and it is still fun to do-it is dancing-no motive in it but what people decide to use it for-the art of the dance is not racial-my aunt would materialize, haunting the place if she heard someone say it was...
My family is not all Black, we are mostly Caucasian Hispanic, and we were raised colorblind, like I believe God intended us to be-some of us have Black and/or Asian/Vietnamese spouses-and no one has ever said “nigg**” or “goo*/slope”, etc-where in the hell do these woke Karens get their stupid racist/bigot ideas?
I have always been told that learning ballet dancing teaches grace of movement and enhances balance-I took ballet lessons-from my aunt-so did my cub-for that reason. People wanting to get rid of that are insane and should be ignored-they just can’t stand that anything graceful, beautiful and uplifting to the soul exists without demonizing it to promote their own brand of joylessness...
Better not cue the fat lady-the Karens probably think the opera is racist, too...
I think you mean “woman”-she is only one person...
Any chance we can get the same done to soccer?
One of the MOST DISGUSTING was “LIZZO” doing such on TV last week.
Looked like an American Bison shaking off excess dust after wallowing.
Ghettopottomouses don’t ballet too well.
The left will not rest until all of homo sapiens is reduced to savages living in caves.
Otherwise there can be no “equity”.
Holy crap! That took years off my old life. Shame on you!
That depends entirely upon her mental state, which doesn’t seem healthy for my viewpoint. She could be several weird people in a single container.
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