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What the heck?? What ballet is this? :)
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i just spat out all myt ea what is going on???!?!
haha love this ballet. So it’s the Royal Ballet and it’s the tales of Beatrix Potter or something… I forget the name but there is a movie version and it’s adorable yet weird
unique talents: can dance proficiently in a squirrel costume
Representation matters!
YES IT DOES BUT CAN WE SPREAD TECHNICAL DANCERS AND NOT STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT CORRECTLY TRAINED. THEY ARE NOT IN THOSE POINTE SHOES CORRECTLY AND THEY ARE GOING TO INJURE THEMSELVES. IM TIRED OF SEEING BAD BLACK BALLET STUDENTS BECAUSE IT KEEPS UP THE REP THAT WE CANT DO CLASSICAL BALLET WHEN WE CAN AND THIS IS JUS SPREADING A BAD IMAGE OF WHAT BLACK DANCERS CAN LOOK LIKE PLEASE SPREAD MORE THINGS LIKE THESE
Responses I get when I say I am a ballerina
- 4%: Wow, that is so cool.
- 5%: How do you stand on your toes?!
- 1%: I wish I was a professional ballerina so I could put myself through physical and emotional pain all for 3 minutes on a stage.
- 90%: I did ballet when I was 4 and then quit.
Meet the Australian teen hoping to be the world’s first Muslim pro ballerina
Stephanie Kurlow is not your average teenage girl with a dream of ballet stardom. For one, she’ll never be a “bunhead.” The 14-year-old Australian is Muslim, making her one of the most prominent hijab-clad ballet dancers around, and she refuses to let her faith get in the way of her life’s goal: to dance professionally. And you can help her achieve that goal.
Hi everyone! I’m a teenage girl with the dream of becoming a ballerina, and I need your help to get there! Summer intensive programs are a great way for dancers to improve in a short amount of time, but they are costly. Any donation will help pay for my tuition, travel expenses, and pointe shoes!…
If everyone could share this link that would be greatly appreciated!
Emotions of a ballerina:
When people say Ballet isn’t a sport:
I’d like to see you do this:
Because it takes alot of damn effort, energy and training just to do this:
And you have to look beautiful and flawless at all times:
And we all know that you’ve clearly never seen a ballet in your life, so your dancing looks like this:
So if doing this makes us happy:
Then shut your face up you uncultured swine
THIS IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT!
black ballerina excellence
So gorgeous and elegant
Why is this important? i see a girl doing ballet, stop outlining difference, its important we just admire the skills, and afore mentioned ellegance
First of all shut the fuck up and have several seats
and heres why in Michaela’s own words what she had to go through beig BLACK and still goes through
When she was around 8 and rehearsing for The Nutcracker, just a few days before the performance she was told, “I’m sorry, you can’t do it. America’s not ready for a black girl ballerina.”
For Michaela, “to say this to an 8-year-old is just devastating. It was terrible.”
When she was 9, a teacher told her mother: “I don’t like to put money into black dancers because they grow up and end up having big boobs and big hips.”
The dancer looked down at her petite figure and protested, “I don’t have boobs. I don’t get it.”
Instead of getting her down, “It makes me more determined,” she said. “Because I’ve been through so much, I know now that I can make it and I can help other kids who have been in really bad situations realize that they can make it too.”
This is why it is important, for little Black girls to see a black ballerina made it despite being discriminated against because of her skin color!!!
Not to mention ballet is one of the most racists activity. I was in a dance company for 10 years, and every year more and more black girls left because, according to the teachers, “they aren’t passionate about it”.
It took me five more years (I was 12 when my first friend “quit) to understand what teachers were telling black girls. “You’ll get too big” “you can’t dance properly with big hips”. Need I mention, at the time I was 16 and most of us were fully grown?
Not to mention, our ballet teacher supported these black girls getting eating disorders and constantly shared “tips” with them on how to stay thin. Like the “white girls”.
Even more bullshit; professional ballet teachers tend to just be awful and pick on anyone who is even a “bit” different. If your hair is too short, you get picked on. If your boobs fucking grew, you get picked on. They can be both physically and mentally abusive, I have seen it first hand.
BUT if you’re black, you get picked on THEN you get kicked the fuck out.
Not so surprisingly, I fucking quit
Professional Ballet is for white, thin, young women. That is why this story is fucking important.
So glad every time I see Michaela DePrince on my dash. Recently just started reading her book Taking Flight to my nieces and sister. Like they said above, this BLACK BALLERINA EXCELLENCE is so important.
THIS IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT!
black ballerina excellence
So gorgeous and elegant
Why is this important? i see a girl doing ballet, stop outlining difference, its important we just admire the skills, and afore mentioned ellegance
First of all shut the fuck up and have several seats
and heres why in Michaela’s own words what she had to go through beig BLACK and still goes through
When she was around 8 and rehearsing for The Nutcracker, just a few days before the performance she was told, “I’m sorry, you can’t do it. America’s not ready for a black girl ballerina.”
For Michaela, “to say this to an 8-year-old is just devastating. It was terrible.”
When she was 9, a teacher told her mother: “I don’t like to put money into black dancers because they grow up and end up having big boobs and big hips.”
The dancer looked down at her petite figure and protested, “I don’t have boobs. I don’t get it.”
Instead of getting her down, “It makes me more determined,” she said. “Because I’ve been through so much, I know now that I can make it and I can help other kids who have been in really bad situations realize that they can make it too.”
This is why it is important, for little Black girls to see a black ballerina made it despite being discriminated against because of her skin color!!!
Not to mention ballet is one of the most racists activity. I was in a dance company for 10 years, and every year more and more black girls left because, according to the teachers, “they aren’t passionate about it”.
It took me five more years (I was 12 when my first friend “quit) to understand what teachers were telling black girls. “You’ll get too big” “you can’t dance properly with big hips”. Need I mention, at the time I was 16 and most of us were fully grown?
Not to mention, our ballet teacher supported these black girls getting eating disorders and constantly shared “tips” with them on how to stay thin. Like the “white girls”.
Even more bullshit; professional ballet teachers tend to just be awful and pick on anyone who is even a “bit” different. If your hair is too short, you get picked on. If your boobs fucking grew, you get picked on. They can be both physically and mentally abusive, I have seen it first hand.
BUT if you’re black, you get picked on THEN you get kicked the fuck out.
Not so surprisingly, I fucking quit
Professional Ballet is for white, thin, young women. That is why this story is fucking important.
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Also you knew why it was important .
ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.
whenever i post this it works
reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet
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