Like race is a huge part of everybody’s story, Virginia Johnson remarked that also the anti-social behavior or racism, the negative side of differentiating races, plays a huge part in everybody’s life. When she was young, Washington was a very segregated city, and even though her father worked for the Navy Department, he had a long history of battling with racism in institutions. Same as the majority of coloured dancers, she found out that ballet was a very closed white world and she never thought to be able to become a professional ballerina.
The black writer Dixon Gottschild describes the feeling of racism in a very graphic way:
“I feel decentered. NOT in a good way. I am in the corner. I am still cornered by SYSTEMATIC racism. I want out. …show more content…
Ballet is a corporeal medium where the body speaks at a particular moment of a performance to transmit to the audience the feelings, the emotions of the choreography. Dance is the art of the moment, the aesthetic lives only in the moment of its appearance. Different from other artists, for example a painter or a poet, the dancer cannot stand back, pause and reflect or disassociate himself from his art. Mireille Arguel describes this characteristic as the ‘principe d’adhérence’ (1992: 204). The dancer is eternally connected with his body: his tool, his instrument and …show more content…
For the male dancers, a slim but strong and muscular body is the ideal, capable to lift the female dancer and carry her around the stage. Both have to have a good turnout, be flexible but able to maintain the spine vertically and execute the ‘upwards’ movements striving to disregard gravity. For women it is important that they master a perfect pointe work to accentuate the lightness of the classical
The black writer Dixon Gottschild describes the feeling of racism in a very graphic way:
“I feel decentered. NOT in a good way. I am in the corner. I am still cornered by SYSTEMATIC racism. I want out. …show more content…
Ballet is a corporeal medium where the body speaks at a particular moment of a performance to transmit to the audience the feelings, the emotions of the choreography. Dance is the art of the moment, the aesthetic lives only in the moment of its appearance. Different from other artists, for example a painter or a poet, the dancer cannot stand back, pause and reflect or disassociate himself from his art. Mireille Arguel describes this characteristic as the ‘principe d’adhérence’ (1992: 204). The dancer is eternally connected with his body: his tool, his instrument and …show more content…
For the male dancers, a slim but strong and muscular body is the ideal, capable to lift the female dancer and carry her around the stage. Both have to have a good turnout, be flexible but able to maintain the spine vertically and execute the ‘upwards’ movements striving to disregard gravity. For women it is important that they master a perfect pointe work to accentuate the lightness of the classical