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On Ballet TikTok, a Place for Young Dancers to Be Real

On Ballet TikTok, a Place for Young Dancers to Be Real “On TikTok, rather than your technique going viral, you could have your ideas about ballet go viral.” Harper Watters, @theharperwatters, a Houston Ballet soloist, is the rare professional ballet dancer to break through on TikTok.Credit.Videos by Yael Malka For The New York Times Feb. 5, 2021 “How am I supposed to feel confident in myself when these are the ballet body standards?” begins a TikTok video by user @hardcorpsballet. The question stopped this former dancer mid-scroll. An honest conversation about ballet’s cult of thinness? Yes, please. Then came the slide show: not a parade of waiflike bodies, but instead the well-padded Bear from Boston Ballet’s “Nutcracker,” and the furred and feathered creatures of Frederick Ashton’s “Tales of Beatrix Potter.”

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