Click here for a link to Gia Kourlas’s March 5th New York Times article, “What Is a Ballet Body? The article dives into the interesting result of dancers who’ve gained a few pounds from staying home during Covid. These dancers are happy with how they look and feel. They have no interest or intention in going back to “how their bodies used to be.”
This perspective has been a long time coming (imo) for ballet dancers but especially for Balanchine dancers at NYC Ballet.
