Comments on: Inquiring minds want to know: do ballet dancers ever have large busts?

By: Univ of Saigon 68

Univ of Saigon 68 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:25:07 +0000

If you have big tatas, you should go into opera, not ballet.

– – Univ of Saigon 68 – –

By: Walt

Walt — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:47:14 +0000

No, I guess she wasn’t. Sorry.

By: Walt

Walt — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:35:23 +0000

Wasn’t Julie Newmar the Prima at the Los Angeles Ballet around 1950?

By: Someone+Else

Someone+Else — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:41:06 +0000

A million years ago, when I was in high school, I took a master class with Ballet West. The dancer who taught the class was zaftig for a ballet dancer. And she was an amazing dancer.

By: Richard+Aubrey

Richard+Aubrey — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:27:49 +0000

My granddaughters were, early on, interested in dance. One got almost to the en pointe stage, the other not so far before they took to sports. Volleyball, softball, basketball–all champion level, playing for teams one year older–and equestrian.
Not much spare weight. The younger, when in the fifth grade, ran sixth-grade cross country. Top ten in the county for girls, sub thirteen minutes for two miles.
But they lost interest, relatively speaking.
There were some pretty big classes of girls maybe seven or eight years old. I figure a number of them, besides my own relations, have lost interest, at least at the level it takes to progress.
One thing or another and…a bigger chest might be one of the issues which causes them to try something else.
Saw some high school musicals over the years where dancing and singing were necessary. Seems as if the young women in the leads or even the secondary roles knew what they were doing. But drama and singing and high school life were sufficient.
So perhaps progress along the road to being a ballerina has a lot of reasons to not continue and one of them could be build.

By: DNW

DNW — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:00:40 +0000

This is not to mock, seriously; but, to some extent, it looks like a 1960s light comedy performance by a chorus line dancer [ or whatever studio available variety show dancers would have been called] doing a ballet skit. Or, if not a skit exactly, an interlude or reverie from some non dance storyline.

A dance troupe comes through Mayberry, where the bus breaks down: and during the forced diversion there, Barney Fife develops a crush on a tall dancer, daydreaming at his desk until Andy shouts “Barney!” for the third time.

Or something.

But then I know nothing of dance or dancers in general.

I don’t even understand what it is, if it comes down to that. Dancing is a very strange business, if you think about it.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:35:39 +0000

A 5’10” ballerina?? You mean I could have done it? I took a year of ballet in college to fulfill the PE requirement. I was thin, have turnout, and I heard my teacher talking to someone about “untrained bodies” which might otherwise have been dancers. He gave me As for effort, and sat on the bench laughing at the whole class when we tried pirouettes down the room.

T, I think breast size is genetic, not testosterone. Even nearly flat mothers can breast-feed babies, as I can attest.

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:52:21 +0000

It’s the old deal of reality vs fantasy. Just like in sports if you can dance you’re a dancer.

By: Xylourgos

Xylourgos — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:36:00 +0000

Although not overly endowed I could watch these beauties all day long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay5uNo53H88

By: DJMoore

DJMoore — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 05:37:40 +0000

“‘My God, Norrey, she’s enormous.’ …Imagine a supremely gifted basketball player five feet tall.”

SF writer Spider Robinson proposed one possible solution: freefall dancing, in orbit. He was married to a ballet dancer, and she is credited as co-author of their 1977 novella “Stardance”. (Won the Nebula and the Hugo, back when those awards were in fact about good SF.)