UK: Top Dance School Bans Ballet from Auditions for Being White and Idealizing European Body Shape

Why did Elvis Dunderhoff choose that meme for this article?

I’m going to have to learn Jedi meditation to understand it.

That bitch’s ass looks like knuckles to me. Not the character from Sonic, but like, the part of the finger.

The Telegraph:

Ballet has been dropped from auditions at a leading dance school as staff say it is rooted in “white European ideas”.

The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD), which aims to be a “progressive institution”, has reviewed the “elitist” art form as part of a diversity drive that has seen the introduction of new policies relating to gender and race.

Ballet has been ditched as a requirement for school-entry auditions because of its “contentious nature”, with teaching staff explaining that the traditional mode of dance comes with the baggage of “white European ideas”.

The centuries-old art form was seen as being a barrier to inclusion because of the exclusionary financial burden of taking classes, and also because of its idealising of certain European body shapes, and division of roles along gender lines.

The changes come after the conservatoire undertook work to “decolonise the curriculum” and take advice from LGBT societies.

Information from the NSCD, based in Leeds, said: “We review content and have removed ballet from our audition day due to its potentially contentious nature.”

Francesca McCarthy, head of undergraduate studies at the conservatoire, explained to The Telegraph: “It is essentially an elitist form. Young people need to pay to take ballet classes as a general rule and for a vast number of potential students, they’ve not had access to ballet.

It is a very specific form that is built around particular white European ideas and body shapes that are often alienating to young people who do not fit that aesthetic ideal.”

Dance is basically like gymnastics, which a certain Andrew Anglin wrote about recently.

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It totally destroys girls’ bodies, and it’s a crime that their parents put them through it. They will never grow breasts.

But yes – white girls’ bodies are more fit for this in the same way that black bodies are more fit for basketball and a lot of (American) football positions.