O ensino do balé não deve ser traumático, dor não gera perfeição.

Abstract

This Final Course Work seeks to show that learning to dance classical ballet does not have to be traumatic, disagreeing with conventional teaching methods where teachers teach through pain, causing dancers to constantly suffer from abusive comments about their bodies, affecting them not only physically, but also psychologically. To develop this argument, I use the autobiography and an interview with women from the Dance course at the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU, and the Portuguese Language course at the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU, who had contact with this abusive teaching. I also bring a discussion about how there is a demand for body standards in women both in dance and in society, dialoguing with the authors Naomi Wolf (2022), Débora Bolsanello (2024), Clara Camarotti (2019) and Fabiana Maia (2011). And thus present other ways of teaching ballet without following an abusive standard, based on the pedagogies developed by Lu Braga (2020) and Zélia Monteiro (2018).