Classical Ballet And The Aesthetics Of Discrimination | International News Live Blog

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Kat Richter, responding to Pennsylvania Ballet’s firing of principal Sara Michelle Murawski because she’s too tall, reminds us that “ballet is, in fact, an ethnic dance form. As such, it embodies the social, cultural and aesthetic values of the time and place in which it developed (16th-century France)” – … http://internationalnewslive.com/classical-ballet-and-the-aesthetics-of-discrimination/