'Ballet is like porn': English National Ballet director says male-dominated choreography 'shapes the way you look at things'

Everything_Is_Rape · 2013-07-19T07:56:21+00:00

0.o

I fricking love ballet. Sure, the dance (whether it's the choreography or even the different dance types, like ballet vs contemporary) will influence how you see the story. That doesn't make it "like pornography"!

Ted8367 · 2013-07-19T10:29:50+00:00

She added that the lack of female choreographers is partially down to women taking breaks to have children and that they are ‘not aggressive in self-promotion’.

I know next to nothing about ballet. Until I saw this remark, I imagined that the choreographers would mostly be female, like the dancers and the aficionados. Why wouldn't they be? What is it about choreographers that requires physical strength and readiness for aggression, and all those other stereotypical male things?

This is another of those mysteriously male occupations, like composing music. There are plenty of female performers, but very few female composers, and those are relatively un-prolific.

Tamara Rojo's explanation sounds much like all the other excuses as to why females are underrepresented in such fields:

the lack of female choreographers is partially down to women taking breaks to have children and that they are ‘not aggressive in self-promotion’.

That's coming from the artistic director of the ballet company - presumably she had to be self-promoting enough herself to get that position. And as for all the female choreographers preferring to have children instead, why doesn't that apply to the dancers too? Enough of them are female.

I'm genuinely puzzled by this.

rapiertwit · 2013-07-20T08:33:35+00:00

Yes, the box seats are for wanking privacy. She's just now realizing this?

Title	'Ballet is like porn': English National Ballet director says male-dominated choreography 'shapes the way you look at things'
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Date	July 19, 2013 6:05 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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