{"id":30,"date":"2018-04-25T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2018-04-30T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:15:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballerinas Must Be Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-152\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/files\/2018\/04\/ballerina-2024547__480-260x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Everybody has high expectations for ballerinas.\u00a0 A ballerina must be pretty, she must be flexible, she must be thin, she must be powerful but dainty, energetic but reserved.\u00a0 These expectations are impressed by directors, audience members, choreographers, and the dancer herself.\u00a0 Despite their solid core, a ballerina can only balance so much before she falls.\u00a0 Girls that train in ballet start young, typically at age 2 or 3, from that moment on she is given a mold that she must fit if she ever hopes to become a professional ballerina one day.\u00a0 The lessons that young girls take away from ballet are typically ones of negativity and harshness; they are taught that they need to be perfect, that if they are not thin or naturally gifted with arched feet or flexible hips they are automatically less than perfect and that they need to find a way to fix or compensate for it immediately.\u00a0 Such a mentality is incredibly dangerous to girls.\u00a0 The desire for a thin body can often lead to eating disorders or drug abuse to curb appetite.\u00a0 Girls that have flat feet but crave high arches submit themselves to archaic methods of feet stretching that can cause irreversible damage.\u00a0 Since flexibility is such a staple in dance, a girl not born with natural flexibility is more at risk for strains or sprains as they try to compensate for their genetics.\u00a0 There are many more examples just like this and they all stem from the concept that all ballerinas must fit this perfect image.\u00a0 In order to combat the plethora of problems in the ballet world, it is necessary to address the dangerous idea that a ballerina needs to extremely thin.\u00a0 If the community accepts this concept, then habits such as extreme dieting or cocaine use become unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody has high expectations for ballerinas.\u00a0 A ballerina must be pretty, she must be flexible, she must be thin, she must be powerful but dainty, energetic but reserved.\u00a0 These expectations are impressed by directors, audience members, choreographers, and the dancer herself.\u00a0 Despite their solid core, a ballerina can only balance so much before she falls.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3869,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-ballet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}