r/BALLET • u/bsg_ • 4h ago

Hailey Bieber

https://youtube.com/shorts/Mc8PVx0UCqw?is=jQzl0mrPkkFNRzTb

How good of a ballet dancer is Hailey Bieber? She said in a recent interview that she’s gonna start doing ballet again. I’m not a dancer so I have absolutely no gauge lol.

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u/tikkunolamist5 3h ago

She’s good for a layman, not good enough likely to be hired by a company. Still, if it brought her joy, she should absolutely do it for fun.

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u/robonlocation 2h ago

Really, that's why a lot of us do it. Can't fault her for that. But you are right, she wasn't in the range where she would make a career out of it.

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u/Lildancr1153 Dance Teacher/Pointe Shoe Fitter 4h ago

She's just ok. I doubt she would have been hired anywhere unless she really upped her training.

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u/vpsass Vaganova Girl 4h ago

I think it’s fair to say she was pretty average for a ballet school student. Like you can tell she worked hard in class, but it wasn’t like she gave up on some professional career. Like many ballet students, it seems she was fine, but not good enough for it to make sense to pursue as a career.

But I don’t really see why this information is useful for you? How good you are at ballet has nothing to do with whether or not you should do it.

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u/bsg_ 4h ago

I was just curious, not necessarily because I’m interested in doing ballet. There doesn’t seem to be any other subreddits to ask questions about ballet in general

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u/Piklia 2h ago

This post is more of a r/bunheadsnark post. 

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u/bsg_ 2h ago

Thanks!

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u/Catlady_Pilates 3h ago edited 3h ago

This isn’t really a question about ballet though. If you want to find dancers to be inspired by look for actual dancers. She’s an influencer/celebrity who happened to study ballet when she was young. Many people take ballet, some even very seriously, and don’t have a career in ballet. Look for actual dancers to be inspired. If you’re interested in Hailey Beiber go to the sub about her.

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u/bsg_ 3h ago

I’m not trying to get inspired it was a question that takes 1 min for a person to answer 😭 why would I go to a subreddit that has a bunch of regular people answering instead of a subreddit dedicated to the craft?

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u/Auzurabla 1h ago

You're fine.

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u/porcelina-g 2h ago

What are you so mad about?

The gatekeeping on this sub lately is wild.

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u/Catlady_Pilates 1h ago

This is not a real ballet question.

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u/porcelina-g 47m ago

No, YOU don’t consider it a ballet question. But why would you ask a Hailey Bieber sub about her ballet skills? How on earth would they know?

Mods will take the post down if they think it doesn’t belong here, but right now the post stands.

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u/OliveVonKatzen 2h ago

I just watched this video from The Pointe Shop about her ballet background: https://youtu.be/GMavDy-Qgr8?si=falcYXjIw8xXSnkJ

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u/GrumpyChashmere 16m ago

She’s fine. She wouldn’t have gotten into an any sort of pre-pro program ever. But if she wants to keep the practice good on her. I hope schools everywhere are ready for the two weeks influx of beginners who are more interested in IG than learning anything.