In the dance world, you have to have a certain muscular shape; you have to have long limbs and willowy shoulders. It's hard to have breasts.
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Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
What you put into your body is just as important as how hard you dance. I believe with the right training and an understanding of how to take care of your body, you can mold it to be whatever you want it to be.
I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'
With small breasts, you don't have to wear a bra with dresses that have some support. It feels sexy without one.
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.
It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.
Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.
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