You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.
I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.
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