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regularjoe

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  • Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
    not really
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    ca
  1. I remember watching the news several years ago where there was a controversy concerning a russian ballet dancer. I believe she got fired because her company felt she was overweight. Should she have been fired, was she really overweight?
  2. So, right now, what is the ideal ballerina figure, i.e. weight or size?
  3. Thanks for the feedback. So, if weight isn't an issue, then how come we don't see heavier ballernias? Is this just the aesthetics of the art? Somebody was arguing with me that because of all this weight discrimination, it leads to a lot of unhealthy and malnourished ballerinas.
  4. Hello everybody, I'm a new poster here, and just a regular guy. I must admit that I don't have any special love for ballet, and probably only have seen one or two just for a girl. Anyways, I have a question about whether or not the following should be considered ballet. There was a recent story in cnn: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/01/...s.ap/index.html To me, I don't think its fair to label this as ballet, especially since they've 'limited' some of the movements expected. Just from a physics standpoint, it seems that they probably have eliminated most of the leaps and lifts. How does one determine whether or not something is ballet or modern dance. Are there certain movements that you need to incorporate before one can call it modern dance? Even though I wouldn't normally go out and watch ballet, I still respect all the hard work that those professionals have gone through. It just seems to be PC gone amuck, where anybody can call itself ballet.
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