10th January 2023
Yulia looks back on Scottish Ballet’s winter production and compares it with other adaptations of The Snow Queen. As an adult it’s sometimes hard to embrace the so-called “Christmas Spirit” extolled by poets and fairy-tellers (and even more so, merchandisers). Magic gets lost somewhere on the way, with celebration disproportionately consumed by preparation. In contrast, ...
8th January 2023
Film and TV Editor Katia gives a personal account of the prejudice she faced as a tall person in ballet. I started going to ballet classes at the age of three. We had just moved to Spain from America, and my mother was eager to find a fun activity where I might make friends. I ...
15th May 2021
Representing Scotland in ballet. If you’ve found yourself exhausting streaming services throughout this year, perhaps you stumbled across Scottish Ballet’s The Snow Queen. With the closure of stages, online access to ballet has jumped, and gives time to open the curtain to a more diverse audience and dim the elite middle-class view of ballet. When ...
3rd April 2021
An industry where body-shaming is the norm. Content Warning: racial stereotypes, eating disorders. I spent many hours of my childhood in a leotard, in ballet, jazz, tap, modern and hip-hop classes. I now also fit into the 70% of former female ballerinas who statistically have or have had an eating disorder. I remember being stood ...
