Revisiting the Dangerous Agenda
I attended a (significant) birthday celebration for a ballet buddy of mine this weekend and was talking with one of the other guests, who is retired professional dancer, RBS Upper School graduate and a respected teacher.
We were chatting as you do at such things and how I came to know the Birthday Girl came up and then that progressed into a bit about me, my dancing history and my story ...
The Dangerous Agenda came up in discussion, specifically how I had fallen out quite vocally with someone on an internet forum about whether young lads of 11/12/13 years old who have been taking class thus far with their female peers should when it comes to Intermediate Foundation and Intermediate VGEs, also continue to take to class with them and both male and female students cover both the schemes of work for development purposes even if they intend to take one or other of the gendered assessments for this award.
The teacher I was talking to agreed that this was actually pretty sensible and would develop the dancers, and putting the lads on pointe would strengthen their feet and ankles as well as give them a better appreciation of how, should they progress further , their partners would be dancing ... and that the girls should be encouraged to develop and strengthen as dancers with the 'male' grand allegro ...
We were chatting as you do at such things and how I came to know the Birthday Girl came up and then that progressed into a bit about me, my dancing history and my story ...
The Dangerous Agenda came up in discussion, specifically how I had fallen out quite vocally with someone on an internet forum about whether young lads of 11/12/13 years old who have been taking class thus far with their female peers should when it comes to Intermediate Foundation and Intermediate VGEs, also continue to take to class with them and both male and female students cover both the schemes of work for development purposes even if they intend to take one or other of the gendered assessments for this award.
The teacher I was talking to agreed that this was actually pretty sensible and would develop the dancers, and putting the lads on pointe would strengthen their feet and ankles as well as give them a better appreciation of how, should they progress further , their partners would be dancing ... and that the girls should be encouraged to develop and strengthen as dancers with the 'male' grand allegro ...
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