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As the song said, everything was beautiful at the ballet. Offstage, however, there is another tune, one of jarring chords of racism, sexism, and elitism, at odds with the ethereal beauty onstage. After interviewing dancers, dance teachers, choreographers, doctors, parents of dancers, and others, journalist Angyal found that ballet "is cracking under the weight of multiple interlocking crises, some of them of its own making." Impossible standards of beauty ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More