#balletposting

"average male ballet dancer has a 6 foot vertical" factoid actually statistical error. average male ballet dancer has a 2 foot vertical. Verticals Baryshnikov, who lives in New York and can jump approximately 40 feet in the air, is an outlier adn never should have been counted

why donchu what tchaikovsky pas de deux with tiler peck and joaquin de luz starting at 8:11 for the purpose of appreciating their movement quality and musicality and maybe youll calm down

kind of insane that a week ago i could barely put my palms on the ground doing a cambre forward / standing pike stretch which was so so depressing for me (i was resigned to being like. well at least i can still touch my toes lmfao) and now i have my full folded in half w chest flat against my legs again. i mean lowkey this is why my hamstrings are bleeding into my thigh flesh lol but whatever it's fine i can comfortably sit folded in half again. well not comfortably when clearly it's hurting me pretty severely. but like. doesn't hurt while i'm doing it :)

btw survived my first ballet class in about 15 years AUGH 😭 NEVER KILL YOURSELF THERE'S ALWAYS BALLET CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIRL WHO IS GOING TO BE OKAY DOT PNG

wait just realized there was never a time in my life where me being a ballet dancer and being out as a lesbian overlapped at all and SO much of my time as a dancer was about molding myself into incredibly specific restrictive hyperfeminine ideals of desirability that's so wild. i don't have any idea what it looks like to do ballet as an unabashed dyke. huh. ok lets treat this as like. an interesting experiment. gotta think of it as creating something new from the ground up rather than pathetically and futilely trying to recapture something i've long lost