#wtf!!!!!!!!!

It's literally confirm lmao /lh

“Elena Daprati from the University of Rome suggested that these changes have been driven by social pressures from audiences. Daprati combed the archives of London’s Royal Opera House to find 156 images comparing stills of dancers in certain poses from 1946 - 2004, and found that with every position the angles of the dancers limbs became more and more extreme.”

" Regardless of the cause, the increasingly heightened standards in the physical and technical sublimity of the modern dancer is impossible to ignore. In the 1980’s the average age of retirement for a professional ballet dancer was 40. Just ten years later that number had plummeted to 29. In one decade dance had gone from being something you chose as a life and career, to a job that demands a 'plan B' for when you're forced to retire from burn-out or injury″