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A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future

Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance.

In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

ISBN-13: 9781645036715

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Publication Date: 07-11-2023

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

Chloe Angyal is a journalist from Sydney, Australia. She is a senior editor at VICE News and her writing about politics and culture has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in the Iowa City area.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Fight for The Future of Ballet 1

Chapter 1 The Hidden Curriculum 15

Chapter 2 Ballet Runs On Moms 41

Chapter 3 A Tolerance for Pain 63

Chapter 4 Turnout and Burnout 97

Chapter 5 The Unbearable Whiteness of Ballet 127

Chapter 6 Dance Like A Man 151

Chapter 7 Princes and Predators 171

Chapter 8 A New Story 195

Chapter 9 I Keep Dancing On My Own 221

Conclusion How Ballet Survives 245

Acknowledgments 255

Selected Bibliography 259

Selected Filmography 261

Notes 263

Index 277