Is the return of slim the next women’s body trend? In its annual report of yearly procedures for 2023, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons dubbed the new popular look the “ballet body.” ...

Former dancers have said there is a long-running "toxic" culture of body-shaming and bullying at two of the UK's most prestigious ballet schools. The BBC has spoken to more than 50 ex-students of ...

Alena Corniea, a sophomore dance major at the University of Minnesota, said she struggled with body image and disordered eating during her early teenage years related to her dance environment. Corniea ...

Dozens more ballet dancers have described body-shaming and bullying at schools across the UK, following a BBC investigation earlier this year. One ex-Elmhurst Ballet School student says she was ...

This is nothing new or unique to my experience: Dancers so often hyperfocus on their bodies because they are the tools with which they create their art. In ballet especially, being extremely thin ...

At the end of May and early in June, I went to two dance performances by the Los Angeles Ballet and by Bodytraffic ... gender in romantic roles as well as body types – were all reconsidered.

On top of that, ballet and fluid dance movement has been ... to go and do something else because I didn’t have the right body for it. Who started the rule that there’s one specific body ...

There is nothing quite as graceful as two ballet dancers floating across a stage, their bodies echoing one another, and their movements conveying a thousand emotions without anyone speaking a word.