This year I began a love affair.
It changed me. It changed everything about my life. It moulded me, made me strong and it healed me.
I began a love affair with myself.
I cannot convey how important self love is. It is not selfish or self centered. It should not induce guilt or shame because it is a beautiful thing.
You are beautiful and should be treated as such.
You are beautiful at every dress size.
At every weight.
At every stage of your life.
I am not saying your problems will magically disappear but your only path to recovery, to growth is love.
This year I flew through extremes, through depression and counselling and hospitalisation to eating disorders to dropping out of college to booking a one way ticket to paris where I currently live it up.
I cut out everything that made me feel negative. This included people and places and foods and websites.
I was overweight. Grossly. At 5'3 and 210 lbs it was detrimental to say the least. It impacted everything I did and everything I thought about. It was my only important thing. It caused me to give up something that I loved - ballet.
And, as I said before, problems do not immediately vanish. I still cannot pickup my pointe shoes and dance again despite 50 pounds of weight loss because I am still too self conscious.
Some day. Soon.
To all my lovely fellow people… I love you.
You love you.
You just need to cheat on self hatred for awhile to see it.
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO AREN’T SUPER SKINNY
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO AREN’T WHITE
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO HAVEN’T BEEN DANCING SINCE THEY WERE FOUR
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO STRUGGLE WITH BODY IMAGE
SHOUTOUT TO THE BALLET DANCERS WHO DEIFY THE NORM, WORK HARD, AND LOVE TO DANCE
BECAUSE YOU DESERVE TO DANCE JUST AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE
This means everything to me
As a black ballerina racism is less about what happens to you and more about what doesn’t happen to you. (…) I think that it is a rare artistic director that is willing to hire a black ballerina and promote her through the ranks. The problem begins with the corps de ballet. I think that artistic directors like the corps to look homogenous. The corps is the backdrop to the story, a forest, a snowstorm, a flock of birds or a field of flowers. One red poppy in a field of yellow daffodils draws the audience’s eyes to the one poppy. However, I don’t think the answer is to cull the poppy. I think it’s to scatter more poppies about the field of daffodils. With more black ballerinas in the corps, there will inevitably be more black ballerinas rising. I think that if these artistic directors or perhaps the boards of professional ballet companies want to draw larger more heterogeneous audiences, they need to be willing to change the look of the corps de ballet’.
Permanent and temporary posts
July 6, 2015 at Palais Garnier
FOR THE APPLICATION FILE : Please send a letter, a curriculum vitae, a full-length portrait, and a video of the candidate in a variation of the classical repertoire (on points for women) to :
OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS - PALAIS GARNIER
SECRETARIAT DE LA DIRECTION DE LA DANSE
8 RUE SCRIBE - 75009 PARIS
The audition is opened to both women and men aged from 16 to 26 years old. A preselection will be made on file.
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATION : MONDAY 18TH MAY, 2015
Details about the programme of the audition will be given one month before. For any further question, you can contact the secretariat of Direction de la Danse at :
00 - 33 – (0)1 - 40 - 01 - 24 - 24
Lifting? Sure!
Dance Aerobics? Sure!
Swimming? Sure!
Walking? Sure!
Jumping rope? Sure!
Ballet? Sure!
Pole Dancing? Sure!
Gymnastics? Sure!
Yoga? Sure!
Running? Sure!
Skipping, hopping, rolling down a hill, and laughing your ass off? Sure!
*points to bedroom* This is where we frick frack.
*points to kitchen* This is where we snick snack.
*points to living room* This is where we kick back.
*points to bathroom* This is where we shit shat.
*points to couch* This is where we chit chat.
*points to computer* This is where we click clack.
*points to shelf* This is where weknick knack.
*points to sex dungeon* This is where we paddy-whack.
What a truly awful website this is
If you were ever a girl that people whispered about and laughed at as you walked by…. That feeling never goes away. You’re suspicious of everyone around you having a good time, thinking it’s at your expense.
this is why I am always anxious in social settings
I’m so glad someone put it in words
Fill this out in my ask box! One point for every correct answer. Ten points total. I’ll reply with your total score!
First name:
Nickname:
Age:
Gender:
Sexual Orientation:
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Likes:
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Random fact:
BECAUSE I DON’T THINK THERE’S ANYONE CAN GET MORE THAN FOUR POINTS. AHAHAHAHAgods…
I WANNA SEE IF ANYONE GETS 10/10
Do me
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