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Don't Think, Dear - On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
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Don't Think, Dear - On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
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'Don't think, dear' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries,
being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin,
obedient and feminine. It is the crucible of womanhood, together
with the harassment, physical abuse and eating disorders endemic at
top schools. Can we abide this in a post #MeToo world? Weaving
together her own time at America's most elite ballet school with
the lives of renowned ballerinas throughout history, Alice Robb
interrogates what it means to perform ballet today. She confronts
the all-consuming nature of the form: the obsessive and dangerous
practices to perfect the body, the embrace of submission and the
idealisation of suffering. Yet ballet also gifts its dancers
'brains in their toes', a way to fully inhabit their bodies and a
sanctuary of control away from the pressures of the outside world.
Perhaps it is time to reimagine its liberating potential.
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