“Boys Dance!” Children’s Book Supports Young Boy Ballet Dancers

Bella Breakdown The unique children’s book “Boys Dance!” celebrates young male dancers to follow their passion for dancing and spotlights male role models in the ballet community. The “Boys Dance!” author John Robert Allman wanted to work on the children’s picture book to celebrate classical male dancers that have yet to be represented in children’s literature. Allman consulted eight male performers of the American Ballet Theatre and the book features photos with testimonies for the dancers in the epilogue. Allman explained that the media portrayal of male dancers made it seem OK to explore this art form when he...

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This Isn’t Fake News, Cantonese Company Creates Trump Opera

Bella Breakdown POTUS Donald Trump inspires Cantonese opera company to feature an all-singing, all-dancing opera in his honor called Trump on Show. As much as Trump would love to claim this is fake news, it’s about as real as it can get. Cantonese opera actor Loong Koon-tin plays the POTUS, donning the odd hair and red tie in true Trump fashion. Koon-tin gives us a breakdown of this new opera and the inspiration driving the show. Most of the show is in Cantonese with a little bit of singing in English, after all, it is a Cantonese opera. The...

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