1. Ballet, Perfectionism and Black Swan
One of these is that many dancers are forced into dance companies and are forced to take up ballet because of a parent or parents that are essentially failed ballet dancers. The dancers are faced with deadly ambivalence. ... Mark Heyman, co-screenwriter, mentions that he was interested in the way the strict hierarchy of the ballet world threw this kind of power play into sharp relief, and found it compelling that female dancers express their cutthroat rivalry in a context that is very indirect that intense aggression is expressed in a way that is very polite and restrained. Wolf talks about ho...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate