According to The Telegraph, one of Britain's dance schools, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD), will continue to drop ballet from its entry requirements due to its "potentially controversial nature".
The dance school's head of university studies, Francesca McCarthy, explained this in her commentary to the newspaper by saying that she believes that ballet is basically an elitist form that was invented for young people who can pay for ballet lessons, but the majority of students do not have access to it. for the dance.
It's a very specific form built around certain white European ideas and body shapes that are often alienating to young people who don't fit that aesthetic ideal.” he claimed.
McCarthy also complained that ballet had "strongly gendered roots in terms of movement vocabulary", suggesting that "the majority of [NSCD] ballet teachers were trained back in the days when ballet education was still clearly divided into men lift up women" . He admitted that there has been a slight shift in this recently, but there are still problems "around the acceptance of non-binary and trans dancers".
The Telegraph also raised concerns about the fact that female ballerinas and male dancers are separated even at the level of words in ballet.
Gender roles and gendered language are also a big problem for the NSCD in ballet. According to McCarthy, they have begun to encourage the use of gender-neutral terms, and efforts are being made to make it part of everyday usage to use the word "they" when addressing them to avoid assuming the identity of the dancers.
Source: 888.hu
