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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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To: MarvinStinson

Even if people don’t take ballet into their future, taking classes while young creates limber and graceful people.

I guess in 2022 the stripper poll is the current thing.


61 posted on 07/17/2022 4:54:23 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Ballet is a “white European idea”, but its a highly specific one. Ballet as we know it is quite a recent invention as cultures go. It goes back to the origins of opera as a form of court music, which was sometimes enhanced by dance. It is, like opera, something that grew out of entertainment fads in the royal courts of Europe. It is about as upper class in origin as anything can be - its true origin is usually given as the elaborate entertainments given at the court of Louis XIV, in which he often participated himself. The whole thing went from royal court to royal court, until it came under the Tsars patronage in Russia, where it it became what we know today. It was a thing of Kings and Emperors.


62 posted on 07/17/2022 4:56:05 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: MarvinStinson

I guess these “woke” morons have never heard of Lauren Anderson who was the prima ballerina of the Houston Ballet for several years.

I got to see her perform a few times. It really was poetry in motion.


63 posted on 07/17/2022 4:56:11 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: ryderann

“Can you picture Stacy Abrams in a tutu?”

Yeah, the dancing hippos scene in FANTASIA.


64 posted on 07/17/2022 4:58:12 PM PDT by Orosius
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To: blam

Gross. What a self-absorbed piece of trash.

Twerking looks like a body is possessed by something evil.


65 posted on 07/17/2022 4:59:36 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: GingisK

She certainly could have multiple personality disorder-or she could just be an ordinary schizophrenic-either way, maybe someone should come and take her away, haha to the funny farm...


66 posted on 07/17/2022 5:01:04 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Allegra; blam
Twerking looks like a body is possessed by something evil.

This looks like the early 20th century version of "twerking."

20s Charleston Dance - "Black Bottom"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH79MhBHN5s

67 posted on 07/17/2022 5:03:13 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: MarvinStinson

If you don’t wanna teach ballet, then DON’T TEACH IT.

Plenty of other institutions will.


68 posted on 07/17/2022 5:08:17 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: windsorknot
Waiting for the “POC Only” drinking-fountains. White is the New Black.

I've been saying it for five years now, only I am more blunt about it: White is the New Nigger.

69 posted on 07/17/2022 5:10:12 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Levy78

Wow! Sorry about what happened to her face! Hope it heals up soon!


70 posted on 07/17/2022 5:11:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: windsorknot

So dated. It will be “BIPOC Only” fountains.


71 posted on 07/17/2022 5:11:30 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Lazamataz
That is blunt, but to the point.
72 posted on 07/17/2022 5:12:28 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Levy78
“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.”

They sure manage to make everything about their perverted, loser selves, don’t they?

73 posted on 07/17/2022 5:19:31 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: skinny old man

Nothing wrong with redneck reasoning. It contains a lot of gut instinct and common sense. We see thru their BS and recognize the truth in a situation.


74 posted on 07/17/2022 5:29:41 PM PDT by moovova
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To: MarvinStinson

Classical ballet is a discipline. If you go through the training you can use it to create your own pieces, which can be as “non-binary” as you like.


75 posted on 07/17/2022 5:32:37 PM PDT by x (Says me who knows nothing about classical ballet ...)
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To: Allegra

Never met an LGBT that wasn’t a self absorbed raging narcissist


76 posted on 07/17/2022 5:33:39 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ryderann

NO!


77 posted on 07/17/2022 5:34:37 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: LauraJean
Maybe in addition to not having orthodontists, they don't have dentists, or toothpaste, either. 😱
78 posted on 07/17/2022 5:34:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theorybe” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: ryderann
Can you picture Stacy Abrams in a tutu?

Only in a muumuu

79 posted on 07/17/2022 5:40:56 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: MarvinStinson
They've never heard of Misty Copeland? The lead ballerina of the American Ballet Theater? The Black lead ballerina? That grewup in a motel room with 5 siblings? Hmmmm.


80 posted on 07/17/2022 5:45:27 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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