Democrats Defend FBI Stonewalling Congress on Informant File.Dems Acknowledge Defeat in Debt Negotiations, Urge Others to Vote 'Yes'.McCarthy: Jeffries Said There’s 'Not One Thing in the Bill for Democrats'. ![]() It can just be a partnership.”įollow Penny Starr on Twitter or send news tips to Politics ballet NPR Seattle And it doesn’t always have to be a love connection. “We see men dancing with men and women dancing with women. “It’s really exciting to see choreographers nowadays blurring the lines of gender binary and sexuality,” Edwards said. Male dancers are discovering the benefit of learning the more refined movements traditionally taught in the women’s classes. For that reason, many professional female dancers now take men’s dance classes for strength training and to improve their jumps. It’s more accepted now for ballerinas, who were valued for their long, thin bodies and ability to pirouette, to display greater athleticism. ![]() They are embracing diversity, especially in terms of color, in order to be relevant as well as to attract a younger audience. Choreographers are restaging classical ballets and incorporating modern dance techniques. There are the rare men who dance women’s roles, such as the ugly stepsisters in Cinderella and the Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male drag troupe.īallet itself is evolving. Dances were often based on fairy tales with princesses and princes. Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) reported Edwards’ “leap through the air is pure art”:Ĭlassical ballet has long embraced stereotypical ideas about masculinity and femininity. It will be a door opener and I would imagine – I would hope – that we would flood through that door,” Peter Boal, the artistic director at the PNB and director of its affiliated school, said in the local report. “There will be a moment when someone like Ashton is dancing en pointe in a role that audiences haven’t seen before and it will be a first. “I kind of had this self-realization I could do more and I didn’t want to limit myself in any way,” Edwards said. “I haven’t hanged any labels yet but I’m still learning.”Ĭhallenging personal boundaries translated to him pushing the limits of another love – ballet. “He him/ she her/ they them,” Edwards said. ![]() He’s since discovered that he identifies with other groups too. An 18-year-old male ballet dancer is turning centuries-old tradition on its head by donning en pointe shoes to dance in roles until now reserved for women.Īshton Edwards will be the first male dancer to study en pointe at the prestigious Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB).Įdwards, who moved to Seattle from Flint, Michigan, said in a KIRO 7 News interview that his journey started a year ago when he told his parents he is homosexual and then going farther in describing his sexuality:
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