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‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift? ⊕
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As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the century.…
6 months ago
Ballet star Matthew Ball on gruelling roles and getting ogled on Instagram: ‘I don’t feel precious about my body’ ⊕⊕
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Tall, handsome and used to receiving fire emojis on his social media posts, the dancer has, with his partner Mayara Magri, been called ‘the Posh’n’Becks of ballet’. But there is suffering in his art:…
7 months ago
Who founded the Royal Ballet School in 1926? The Saturday quiz ⊕
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From Anne Boleyn’s ghost to a novel in three volumes, by a lady, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 What is Earth’s largest living toothed predator?
2 What 1811 work was “a novel in three vol…
11 months ago
Boarding school gave me PTSD but I locked it away until my daughter started to board. Then it triggered a breakdown that saw me sectioned: DR CATHY WIELD ○
I had just dropped my daughter off at the Royal Ballet School, where she was to be a boarder. But the trauma of my own boarding experience brought the dread and horror flooding back to me.
13 months ago
Plus-sized dancers and same-sex partners are the future, says Royal Ballet School boss in wake of 'body-shaming' scandal ○
Iain Mackay, who became the school's artistic director last September, has said that the future of ballet lies in breaking away from outdated ideals of body image and gender roles.
16 months ago
Ballerina Lauren Cuthbertson: ‘There’s a saying that dancers die twice, the first time when they stop dancing’ ○
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The Royal Ballet principal on her late career debut, taking her daughters to work, and playing goodies and baddies
Born in Devon in 1984, Lauren Cuthbertson joined the Royal Ballet School aged 11 and …
Ex-dancer settles with Royal Ballet School over 'body-shaming' ○
Ellen Elphick said teachers at the school had left her with lifelong psychological damage.
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