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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know anything about ballet but this thread is so interesting!

What is it about being a flower page that is so bad? What roles are good and bad? [/quote]

There aren't many flower pages in each cast. It seems like there's very little dancing and it seems to mostly cast students of color.

Good roles after a 'certain age' = Party Girls, Soldiers, Bunny, Clowns, Little Butterflies, Frontier Girls[/quote]

Is it typically students of color? Has this been confirmed or is this just speculation??[/quote]

In my DD’s cast last year, one of the pages was Black, but the others were white. I think there were 4 total if I’m not mistaken. Two on either side of the stage behind the mushrooms. [/quote]

Given the paucity of black ballet dancers in general, the question isn't "what percentage of bad parts go to black dancers" but rather "what percentage of black dancers get bad parts"
If there are only a handful of black girls, and they are consistently getting flower page type parts, it doesn't matter than some white girls *also* get those parts.[/quote]

If the page and the bunny are roles for black girls, how are the white girls who get these parts supposed to feel? We shouldn't be labeling these roles as black roles. [/quote]

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