Ballet boys

As Canada's National Ballet School celebrates its 60th anniversary, it's also marking another milestone — the graduating class is made up of more boys than girls for the first time since the school was founded.

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Today was Salem's last practice session for the year. It's not open tomorrow either, pity as Salem really wants to do some work on his dances and to do some more pointe practice. Normally he doesn't take his pointe shoes to the gym as the floor is incredibly slippery and he is constantly having to wet his normal ballet shoes so he isn't slipping all the time. Unfortunately we can't use rosin there. So we put yoga mats on the floor which worked quite well and used the step ladder as a barre…

Woo!

Male ballerinas <3. Manerinas.

Canada’s Ballet Jörgen recently launched an international initiative, “Boys Who Dance,” to offer more emotional support to young danseurs. Through town halls and one-on-one virtual mentorships, which are open to dancers around the world, the program aims to help students overcome bullying, negative stereotyping and other challenges they may face during their training.

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Male technique class at KAB