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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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.
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.
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.
“Can you picture Stacy Abrams in a tutu?”
Yeah, the dancing hippos scene in FANTASIA.
Gross. What a self-absorbed piece of trash.
Twerking looks like a body is possessed by something evil.
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...
This looks like the early 20th century version of "twerking."
20s Charleston Dance - "Black Bottom"
If you don’t wanna teach ballet, then DON’T TEACH IT.
Plenty of other institutions will.
I've been saying it for five years now, only I am more blunt about it: White is the New Nigger.
Wow! Sorry about what happened to her face! Hope it heals up soon!
So dated. It will be “BIPOC Only” fountains.
They sure manage to make everything about their perverted, loser selves, don’t they?
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.
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.
Never met an LGBT that wasn’t a self absorbed raging narcissist
NO!
Only in a muumuu
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