Get it, girl! <3
There are not enough portrayals of thick ballet dancers. This makes me very very happy.
this is awesome.
There are no thick ballet dancers because it’s not true to the art form, which sounds terrible and harsh, but…
> ” it’s not true to the art form”
bitch, u crazy.
actually i can see this being legit. Can you imagine them going into a pirouette or doing a graceful swan hop and not crushing the shit out of their ankles? If it did have a true art form the dancers would have a taste for pain and a short career in mind.
that happens already doesn’t it? like for the ideal tiny thin dancers. it’s super harsh on anyone i would assume. and i can understand people who are lifted are at an advantage if they’re both short and light, but can’t they…write new ballet pieces that aren’t “classics” that don’t require women to be tiny and ethereal etc?
reblogging for that main picture because if we’re gonna talk about dancing and fat people I am taking you all to the next Bihu festival and you all can shut the fuck up on the fat shaming when you see those gloriously fat aunties dance.
Also that’s “true to the artform” shit is actually terrible and harsh and needs to go.
glorious fat aunties dancing <333 also afaik en pointe was specifically developed as late as the 1800s and of course even thin and light dancers cannot do it forevarz /without risk of significant damage to their feet.
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