A Former Ballerina’s Deep Dive on Balletcore

However whereas a lot of the style world is celebrating balletcore, it doesn’t come with out its criticisms. For starters, the ballet occupation has lengthy been related to the skinny, white, ingenue dancer. I can personally vouch for the physique picture points these stereotypes could cause. And alongside different Tumblr-era kinds presently seeing a revival — ballet-inspired trend trended on the platform within the 2010s following the discharge of Black Swan — earlier iterations of the balletcore pattern largely excluded folks of color and people who weren’t deemed skinny sufficient.