What would you expect the answer to this question to be? Sadly, gender bias, gender inequality, bullying, and stereotyping––all of these are alive and well in ballet and, indeed, the broader community in 2019. A recent derisive comment by Good Morning America host Lara Spencer in relation to Prince George’s participation in dance classes drew…

In 1973 when I was 11 years old, my mother took me to the Palais Theatre in St Kilda to see the Leningrad Kirov Ballet perform. I sat in the front row of the balcony, leaning over to see the people underneath; fidgeting impatiently while I waited for the ballet to begin. There are two…