Throughout history the ballerina has been viewed aa the feminine ideal -- beautiful and perfect. However, the reality has been very different. The author reviews the lives of some of the most celebrated ballerinas of the ninteenth through twenty-first century.
Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection? the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century-- who often led double lives as concubines-- through the poverty of the cor…
Throughout history the ballerina has been viewed aa the feminine ideal -- beautiful and perfect. However, the reality has been very different. The author reviews the lives of some of the most celebrated ballerinas of the ninteenth through twenty-first century.