Hello future English 102 students,

          My partner Cristina and I, Tristen, did our researched paper on ballet. Almost every little girl has had the dream of being a prima ballerina. Everything from wearing the pointe shoes, wearing the tutu, the makeup, and just striving to be regal like prima ballerina. However is ballet all what it seems to be? In our researched paper Cristina and my question was does ballet have harmful stereotypes and/or harmful social expectations of the dancers? Through our findings and sources we both agree that ballet does have harmful stereotypes as well as harmful social expectations on and off stage from that can occur right when someone joins ballet.
          An advice from Cristina and I, along with everybody else, is do not and I repeat DO NOT procrastinate when doing this researched paper. Honestly by the time you have to turn in the research paper is during finals week and that in itself is a lot of stress so just spread out the work evenly from the time you get the assignment. As well if you a similar topic with a classmate don't hesitate to work with them. Working with a partner is so much more fun and it evenly splits the amount of stress between the two of you. As well don't forget to ask Jenny because she pitches some amazing ideas that you probably wouldn't think about and she can help you find sources if she knows your topic well.

Good Luck! Here are our sources:

Helen Thomas, ed. Dance, Gender, and Culture. Macmillan Press Ltd., 1993. Print

 

"A Brief History of Ballet" www.pbt.org. Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, n.d. Web. 2 Jun. 2015.

 

Angela Pickard. “Ballet body belief: perceptions of an ideal ballet body from young ballet dancers.” JSTOR : 7. Web. 29 May 2015.

 

Suzanne Juhasz. “The Prince Is Wearing a Tutu: Queer Identity and Identificatory Reading in Jane Hamilton's The Short History of a Prince” 149. MLA. Web. 30 May 2015.

Cohen, Sarah R. "Performing Identity In The Hard Nut: Stereotype, Modeling, And The Inventive Body." Yale Journal Of Criticism: Interpretation In The Humanities 11.2 (1998): 485-505. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 10 June 2015.

Drummond, Kent G. "The Queering Of Swan Lake: A New Male Gaze For The Performance Of Sexual Desire." Journal Of Homosexuality 45.2-4 (2003): 235-255. Academic Search Premier. Web. 29 Apr. 2015.