Bay Area women prove ballet doesn’t have to be torture
What they were seeking to avoid was not the dancing itself but everything that seemed to go with it — the cliquishness, the body dysmorphia, pretty much everything that was shown in the movie “Black Swan.” “I believe that ballet can be about joy, about feeling beautiful and about making your body healthy,” Carla Escoda told me. (Misty Copeland, the famous American Ballet Theatre soloist, is one.) Escoda’s stance on ballet is scientific, funny and down to earth — three qualities that are rarely associated with ballet at all. Читать дальше...