Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself Angyal Chloe
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself Angyal Chloe A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and…
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Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself Angyal Chloe
A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities--and a look inside the fight for its futureEvery day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance.In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet.