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It’s incredibly difficult and painful.

I can see how you might think that. However, search famed French ballerina Sylvie Guillem here on UA-cam. She’s 57, still dancing amazingly well. Also, mid-centuryRussian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, recently passed at 89, who danced until late in life. For some dance is a fountain of youth, for others, not so much

I'm a ballerina. the truth is, we know it's hurting us. These dancers go home every day to swollen feet and legs, blisters, and sometimes torn muscles, over-stressed joints, and other injuries that are a constant reminder of what's to come. I'm only 19 and my feet are already changing shape and my joints hurt a lot from the unnatural pressure put on them. I don't even dance full time anymore because I decided to pursue college, yet it still hurts even to dance part time. To these people, dancing is so important that they are willing to dance this beautifully and wonderfully as much as they can even if it means their career will only be fifteen years long followed by a life of body problems. To be a professional dancer is to be so in love with what you do that you will sacrifice anything, including your own body, for some time on the stage.

@@MJsaBitterLemon dear friend, I know better than you would never guess. In youth, one cannot phantom the perspective. It is possible to dance contemporary, totally natural and unharming movement. The young ballet dancers are to some degree unaware that they are paying with their mobility and health. It is a bit like any addiction. One is beautiful and 100℅ worthy outside ballet class. Cl ballet is not designed for the human body. Young people who realize this and are able to quit, are fortunate. The natural movement and the diversity of everyone's uniquely different body of various shapes, is beautiful. It is an illusion, the cl ballet. The worn out cartilages, immobility at a relatively young age, and the prison of a certain unnatural body image, these are the truth behind the illusory ballet.

@@MJsaBitterLemon dear friend, that ability to love and be passionate about something, can be focused on anything.

As someone who does ballet It is a form of dance certainly not made for our bodies and everything we do is pushing our bodies in a way that it’s not meant to do It’s about lines, symmetry and strength and balance And about being in tune with the world outside of yourself You use the floor to push the energy out and you use your body to hold itself and stabilize it Sure my feet hurt often and my legs and knees and hips but it’s great exercise and we realize as we age what we can and can not do. I’m sure if they felt they couldn’t do this they would stop. We as dancers understand the effects of this form of dance and we also recognize how it is not something our bodies are truly built for but we still push ourselves because we love it