Dance needs to stop festishising thin by Judith Mackrell

As Channel 4's Big Ballet shows, big is often better. But dance keeps struggling with unhealthy stereotypes and weighty issues' Gillian Lynne and Beryl Grey on how dancers should be pushed to the limitDancers and their bodies: it's a story that is rarely out of the news right now, as those in the profession and the public argue about whether ballet has pushed the ideal of the slender, supple body type to such an extr…

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