Beside the Pointe Diversity and bias obsessions come for Swan Lake. Heather Mac Donald
Posted By Ruth King on December 18th, 2020 The New York Times has published the latest installment in its running tally of alleged racism in the high arts: the Staatsballett Berlin (Berlin State Ballet) treated a black ballerina differently because of the color of her skin. Oh, wait! That was yesterday’s template. Today’s is that a black ballerina was treated the same as white ballerinas. The search for racism requires just such rhetorical nimbleness. Since the nineteenth century, dancers in a corps de ballet often applied white body paint i...
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