We teach boys differently than we teach girls,

We place a different expectation on boys dancers versus girls dancers.

We expect boys dancers to learn differently than girls dancers.

We expect the girl to not like the boy.

You have had an expectation placed upon you as the gender you are assigned at birth.

Therefore as a dance instructor I suspect you place an implicit bias developed through a culture of unconscious bias upon your students. 

Because you had a gender assignment placed upon you.

There is something wrong with the ballet industry and the unconscious bias that lays like the mist of Swan Lake Act II.

Outside of body and weight shaming harm that the ballet industrial complex inflicts upon its participants.  The unseen and some of the greatest harm is the unconscious bias that rests in nearly every ballet instructor.  

Boys learn differently than girls!  

Is a poor excuse for poor educators!

What would it look like if we place the same expectations that we place on girls as we do on boy dancers?

And or visa versa,  

Why is there unconscious and implicit bias? I suspect most ballet teachers do not have an education background.  

I am a perfect example, I have a Masters Degree but it is not in teaching.  But like many amazing instructors out there we learned through experience.  But that experience is tainted with an expectation of what gender is!

As dance educators we NEED to do better. 

What is implicit bias and what does it look like to a gender nonconforming human? Expectation, an unreal expectation of what a boy or a girl should be.  

Because of that we lose future beautiful artists.

Classical Ballet has had hundreds of years of unconscious bias forced upon its population.  Generation after generation of expectation.  

Let’s change that. Become an Ally that is needed for a small group of individuals that are culturally punished by expectation.

Let’s place an expectation that the ballet industry will change its negative impact on humanity. 

And just maybe

When the curtains open on that new Act II of Swan Lake questions who is the boy and who is the girl is of little importance.