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Do Ballerinas Really Need To Be So Extremely Thin?

DANCE Posted: July 28, 2020 8:04 am

“Dancers are harming themselves trying to achieve the look. The continued preference for ultrathin bodies seems particularly out of step with current cultural conversations around body positivity and acceptance. What would it take for ballet body standards to change?” After all, writes Garnet Henderson, they’ve changed before. – Dance Magazine

DANCE Published: 07.27.20

Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 07.27.20

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