dirac Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Peter Martins continued to collect tidy sums after his departure from New York City Ballet. Report by Matthew Sedacca in The New York Post. Quote Excluding the year ending June 2021, Martins earned more than anyone else employed by NYCB since resigning, according to the tax documents. Link to comment
dirac Posted October 1, 2023 Author Share Posted October 1, 2023 An op-ed on ballet and body shaming by Joan Wickersham in The Boston Globe. Quote Forty years later, not much has changed. Bouder uses the word “pervasive” to describe ballet’s culture of body-shaming. And she frames it as a mental health issue. She links her own recent body-shaming incident to something that happened during the first week of her professional career when, at the age of 16, she was told that she could get leading roles, but only if she lost five to 10 pounds. Now she has a young daughter who is studying ballet and who loves to dance. “But how do I let my daughter walk into this dance world?” Bouder asks. Link to comment
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