Ballerinas

A Hurt Ballerina What is a ballerina? A ballerina is one who practices the art of ballet. Many ballerinas go through hardships, but the most devastating is an injury. According to (Schwarz 2000) who states, “Psychologists trying to understand the factors that put athletes and performers at risk for injuries have found that professional ballet dancers get hurt just as often and suffer just as serious injuries as athletes in contact sports”.(para.1) Not only is it physical, but an injury

The opening line of this piece started as a daydream. My one impossible daydream of a really graceful ballerina on a tightrope, it was a strange daydream. That line to me just kind of rolled of the tongue, but it’s impractical and could never happen, but I could only imagine the kind of stress that the very pretty ballerina would be feeling up on the tightrope. I created the poem out of a daydream but I’ve been under that kind of impossible stress, or what felt like impossible stress. Usually being

I’ve always wanted to be a ballerina. It was my childhood dream; a little girl’s vision. To imagine myself prancing around a stage, twirling and twisting in all sorts of pirouettes, as the stage cheered and clapped me on filled me up with an unexplainable longing and joy. But that wasn’t all of it, not even half. It wasn’t even dancing that made me want to be a ballerina in the first place. I had chased after that dream for so long, well into the 2nd grade actually, all for the chance I’d

There Are No Fat Ballerinas The anticipation is killing me as I try to sit patiently in the backseat of my grandmother’s van. They need to get out here! After what seems like hours, my sister and mother eventually join my grandma and I. Finally I get some peace as the door chimes to indicate the passengers are loaded. I can’t wait much longer. This time it is going to be different. As the vehicle makes its way across town I am planning the outfits in my head. Back to school shopping is truly an

Baby Ballerina I saw it hanging on the knob the closet door. There it was a beautiful pink tutu,a pink leotard and matching pink leggings. I squealed. Finally, my mom had put me into ballet classes. Finally, I am already in first grade and if I hadn’t started this year, I would never become a true ballerina. I had dreamed of being a ballerina since I was 3. Only because ballerinas were so flexible and beautiful, and they danced so effortlessly. I never stopped trying to learn

The video began with discussing the life of ballerinas and how they thrive to be skinny. Ballerinas are often times 15% below the ideal weight for their height. One dancer spoke about how she dropped more weight in two weeks than in her entire life. She discussed about how she starved herself for almost a year. Throughout starving herself her chest bones began to protrude. She later developed anorexia nervosa which is the deadliest psychological disorder. The video also discussed a famous dancer

"So... what do you want to be when you grow up?" It's a question we've all been asked. Since I could talk I remember people asking me what I want to be. The answer for a long time was something to the effect of "veterinarian", "ballerina", or "writer". Every time someone asked me, the answer was something different. I got older, I changed, I had new viewpoints and different ideas. I could always see myself doing so many different things. I didn't know what I really wanted. I was figuring it out.

Every time you step onto the stage the movement you show reveals you as the dancer but also the dance that was created. A ballet isn’t as simple as an arabesque or balancé de côté that are put together to provide a show. Each ballerina on the stage brings their own personal approach to how they dance, it’s a little more psychological than one may think. As said by Likolani Brown “you have to work hard but also not lose track of who you are and you have to remember why you do it. You do it because

In July 2015 ballerina Misty Copeland checked off one of her wishes on her wish list. Her wish was to become a principal at American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and she became one. She is the first black woman that was named principal. However the road to success was anything but easy. She grew up in family with 5 siblings and a mother. Her father wasn’t a part of her childhood. They haven’t seen each other for 20 years and are still getting to know each other. During her puberty the family with 7 members

video "Two Ballerinas at the Royal Ballet"  discuss Ballerina lifestyle an all the hard work that comes with being a ballerina especially a ballerina at Royal Ballets. the only aspects of the video came as a surprise to me is White Lodge. the video states, " ...who get in still face stiff, annual reassessments. About a third of the students fail to complete the course...." that just surprise me that if someone was good enough to get in they might still not make it. my conception of a ballerina did not