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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile, the School of Washington Ballet is going down the toilet also! It's really a shame because I am sure the school is also losing money. [/quote]

I second this opinion. And the school for sure is losing money because they are losing students. And many families have been upset over the emphasis on needing to be super thin and having a perfect ballet body to be successful in ballet. This is a direct result of things the HOS has said to parents and students. [/quote]

My DD has NEVER heard a teacher say this to her class!  And my DD is in the upper levels.  I don’t believe you know anyone at the school.

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Did you attend the parent orientation for the upper levels?? If you did you would know what I’m talking about. [/quote]

No,  I did not attend this meeting.  However,  it has always been clear in our minds as parents and in our DD’s mind as a dancer that in the upper levels  there is a “weeding” out the dancers who have what it takes to pursue professional careers vs. those dancers who are there as a passionate recreational dancers(my DD falls into this latter camp).  As a PP mentioned, it should come as no surprise that professional ballet  dancers need to possess particular physical attributes.   However, as I said in a prior post, my DD has never, EVER, heard one of her teachers make a comment about needing to be thin.  STRONG, yes, and healthy.  On a side note, I remember watching the Washington Ballet’s summer intensive recital this past July, and I clearly remember the 2 outstanding female soloists as being strong, healthy young women dancers.

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I'm not the PP to whom you're responding and don't have a student at TWB (DC is at another studio). But let's all be realistic here: You know that "healthy" in ballet is often a coded way to say "thin."

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My sister in law was a professional ballerina up until three years ago.  She was so anorexic that her hair fell out in clumps...she was hospitalized multiple times and developed a severe drinking problem to cope.  She had rage issues and was skin and bones.

Her director told them to stand in their leotards and if they did not like what they saw, to quit eating.  She  would only eat pumpkin seeds, sugar free peppermints and pots of coffee for days on end.  If you went out to eat with her, she would stuff her face, come home and immediately take a shower where she would gag her self and throw it all up into the running water to cover up the noise.

Oh and for all her trouble, as the Principal dancer of her company, she made $24,000 a year.  She married my brother for money. Hell would freeze over before I put my child in any ballet company.  "Healthy" in ballet is indeed code for "thin" and possibly mentally I'll from the pressure.
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