![]() ![]() ![]() The peculiar circumstances that then prompt a very few mothers to commit primarily to their dancing daughters are intensely curious the umbilical cord between mother and daughter remains of lasting importance, in some cases remaining as central to the daughter’s life as any marriage. Perhaps most of us are our parents’ wish fulfillments to some degree and very many women find themselves taking their children (usually daughters) to ballet classes. (The pattern is not ubiquitous: Alicia Markova’s parents remained together, Marie Taglioni was principally shaped by her father.) To some large degree, the ballerina is her mother’s wish fulfilment, the embodiment of the eminence she herself never attained. The dancer’s parents are not financially prosperous the mother chooses to support her daughter rather than her husband, often travelling to accompany her talented daughter to the big city where there are an important ballet school and company the daughter’s talent is rewarded with leading roles the mother’s marriage does not survive. Behind a number of history’s world-class ballerinas (not all), there is a sociological pattern. ![]()
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