Ballet boys eclipsing girls thanks to Billy Elliot effect

[kport]

Darcey Bussell: Ballet boys eclipsing girls thanks to Billy Elliot effect

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebri ... ffect.html

[Eltonjohn]

Here's a parallel article that came out a couple of days later, with images from the Lower School.

http://www.capitalbay.news/australia/94 ... girls.html


MODS: would it now make sense to set up a specific thread topic named "The Billy Elliot Effect"? There are at least 5 other posts I can recall from the past few years that all use or refer to this expression.

[Eltonjohn]

Debating the pros and cons of the BEEffect at a January 2016 UK dance festival "gender equality in dance" conference

http://www.cloud-dance-festival.org.uk/ ... bate-event
(This link might 404 after the conference ends, so here is one of the suggested topics for gender equality discussion raised apparently.

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- The 'Billy Elliot' Issue. Why are there so many 'Boys Only' classes/workshops/performance opportunities (Bourne's Lord of The Rings for example!) and yet nothing specific for girls? Or should it be this way? Surely the most natural and perhaps most traditional forms of dance need boys to dance "with" girls and not without them! They need to learn how to do this, segregating them in the studio and training ground is causing real cause for concern.

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The so-called 'real...concern' sounds contrived, is my initial impression.