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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I guess they never heard about Maria Tallchief...
The Brits have been a loss cause since and during WWI.
Let’s just go back to grunts, chest pounds and using a stick as a tool. That would surely show we aren’t privileged European racists. Fools.
We’ll be hearing basically what my wife and I heard all
those years ago.
Cancelling out ballet classes, boy that’s right in line
with what we saw going on all those years ago.
You’re going to love it...
Get ready for “K-Rock” er, “K-Skull Bones” on FM 10-666!
Your story reminded me of the creepy ape dance from the original King Kong.
And Lauren Anderson…
More overt racism against white people.
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“Dance audiences are ready and hungry for trans voices,” director Sean Dorsey said.
QUEER DANCE THEORY: ON SMASHING THE HETEROPATRIARCHY, CREATING BODY- AND SEX-POSITIVE DANCES, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A QUEER ARTIST
https://www.spectrumsouth.com/queer-dance-theory/
Livin large.
Yeah, really...
Hey, that was truly artistic to this. LOL
Gag me...
More twerking, booty shaking and bigotry towards whites.
ya think they'll get rid of golf.????
And the Russians are supposed to be our enemies?
I studied ballet for fifteen years. This is just one more nail in the coffin of society.
* Full scale devilish coming out.
*Antichrist to be revealed.
* Events accelerating
*Birth pangs.
* Battle stations
* Lamps full.
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