Padrões corporais do balé clássico e o seu impacto em bailarinos profissionais

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the body standards required in classical ballet in approximations with the body perceptions of dancers, identifying their consequences on dancers' health. The work presents itself as qualitative research, with a transversal temporal cut, understood as a theoretical study based on a narrative bibliographic review. Theoretical surveys made it possible to identify that there are sociocultural pressures on body ideals, especially in spaces where there is an idealization of low weight and which overestimate aesthetics, generating body dissatisfaction and leading to inappropriate weight control behaviors and practices, as is the case with ballet context. Society has elevated the body to an object of consumption, alienating it in the same way it did, unbalancing the proliferation of an aesthetically invalidated body image. Due to the profession's strict beauty standards, dancers are dissatisfied with their bodies and wish to be thinner, despite low body fat percentages. Every high-performance activity/show requires dedication from the practitioner, just as classical ballet, an art that requires lightness, perfect execution of movements and extensive training, can have a significant impact on the subjects.