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Pre-Professional Ballet Training: Toward Making It Fit for Human Consumption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Karena Birk
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Abstract

Professional ballet is often problematized, as is the training that leads up to it. Even when ballet's training model is not being held up as an example of outright abuse, its “old school” methods are generally considered authoritarian, outdated, and oppressive. However, pre-professional training is not always so dire, and more importantly, it does not have to be. The dance profession and training are changing: to reflect and strengthen emerging “new school” methods, teachers reworking the traditional model should be more active in sharing and asserting their ideas, and there should be greater interaction between academia and the studio.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 41 , supplement S1: Global Perspectives On Dance Pedagogy: Research And Practice , 2009 , pp. 166 - 170
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2009

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