Feb 13, 2023
my pet peeve for competition variations is 14 yo girls dancing black swan or raymonda variations. like, i'm sorry, there's pretty much zero dancers who have the emotional depth to pull off those variations before age 25 or so. children, no matter how technically skilled, do not have the poise for those roles.
Oh for sure...but when competitions are now treated as simply a technical exam 9 times out of 10...the number of pirouettes and the arch of the foot seems to matter far more than the music or the character -_-