It was about an hour after my last pirouette of the evening onstage with the American Ballet Theatre, and I was already in my pajamas. With a glass of wine in one hand and the phone in the other, I ordered my usual: a dozen glazed doughnuts from my local Krispy…
Ballet San Jose NEEDS your help!
Our board has announced an emergency funding campaign in an effort to raise $550,000 by March 14th. Without this money Ballet San Jose will be forced to close its doorsleaving 33 company dancers unemployed and 300 students without a place to train. This would be...
22-year-old Tuany Tomas Nascimento teaches ballet to young girls in her home town of Alemão, Rio De Janeiro which is ridden with gang violence. But Nascimento had an arduous journey before starting her school.
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I will wear what I want.
I will get tattoos if I want.
I will wear makeup if I want.
I will dye my hair if I want.
I will pierce whatever I want.
I will shave what I want.
I will lose weight if I want.
I will gain weight if I want.
I will have sex if I want.
Stop telling me what to do with my body because I’m a girl.
Asking the internet for financial support is new to me, but dammit, I’m hoping so hard for this. If you’d like to support a transgender ballet/modern dancer transition his passion into a career and bring some more queer representation into the dance world, I’d very much appreciate reading my full description and considering a donation of a few dollars. If you can’t afford to contribute, I’d be just as thankful to have this post reblogged.
a message to all you ballerinas out there:
flexible
short
tall
pigeon toed
bow legged
hyperextended
knockneed
near-sighted
flat-footed
extremely flexible-footed
short-legged
short-torsoed
Don’t ever let anybody convince you that your worth as a person is based on your genetics.
If you love ballet, keep working, regardless. Keep dancing your heart for every class, whether you can do 600 pirouettes or a mere 84 degree arabesque.
You are beautiful, talented, unique, IMPORTANT human being. You deserve to work as hard as you can. You deserve to lose yourself in the music during every. single. combination.
And if you have an injury and you feel broken, please remember you deserve to walk without pain one day, and you deserve to be able to live a happy, healthy life 20 years from now. Please take care of yourselves
and please don’t let something you can’t control, or someone who shames you for something you can’t control, ever get you down again. <3 please <3
Washington Ballet’s @narstarr shot by @rachardwolf #fab #thewashingtonballet #nardiaboodoo #rachardwolf
so many double standards and contradictions in the dance world.
if i don’t wanna do ballet, i’m still a dancer.
if i can’t afford 10 hours a week, i’m still a dancer.
if i don’t compete every other weekend, i’m still a dancer.
if i don’t wear the same things or do my hair to your liking or lace my shoes to your preference, i’m still a dancer.
because ii am a dancer for me, not for you.
Polish National Ballet’s ex-soloist Natalia Wojciechowska gives an amazing pole dance performance. This video promotes 2nd National Pole Dance Championships. Watch till the end, she’s incredible!
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This makes me want to cry. In a good way.
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I just love bringing new bettas home because you know its probably the first time in a long while they feel safe and warm in a tank with clean and cycled water.
And then you get the spectacular show of when they finally relax and their true colors come through, literally and figuratively. Like they are completely different fish as happier and more vibrant versions of what you saw in them at the pet store. I have yet to be disappointed by that.
