01/05/2024
In order to better express my aim of changing the body standards of the ballet industry, I have adjusted my question from “How can dance standards in china impact the well-being of dancers?” to “How can China ‘s ballet industry move away from unhealthy body standards and create a more healthy and inclusive body image for dancers?”.
In this way, my question will take the Chinese ballet dance industry as the entry point and focus on the issue of body standards in Chinese ballet.
In this question, I will start with the ballet dancers, looking for ballet dancers who are “fatter” than the traditional definition, and through choreography and interviews, I will conduct an Intervention with the ballet dancers.
Then we will present the videos and interviews of the ballet dancers to the audience, collect their feedback, and analyse their acceptance level and the reasons for their acceptance or non-acceptance, which will be the Intervention for the audience.
Finally, the results of the Intervention with the audience and the dancers will be presented to the leaders of the ballet industry, but it is not certain what the results will be, perhaps the results will be surprising to everyone.
https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/ZJ1zCxAAACMAczPA
Over the weekend I went to see this exhibition on aesthetics (link above), in which the curators showed the extent of people’s pursuit of and obsession with beauty from different perspectives of time and culture, and I think this exhibition helped me in a way to better analyse and understand how the pursuit of beauty by the audience, by the dancers themselves, and by the dance leaders ultimately led to the over-excessive pursuit of the ultimate in body shape and appearance, which may be one of the reasons for this I think this may be one of the reasons, but I still need to find out by talking to the stakeholders.