Is ballet racist?

Black dancers in Britain and the US are fighting to overcome the entrenched white dominance in ballet. But is the paucity of Blacks in ballet a factor of aesthetics, economics or just plain racism?
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White swans are good. Black swans are evil. In a traditional Swan Lake, dancers dust themselves with pale powder. The perfect ballet dancer is slender, long-limbed and definitely white.

But talented black dancers are fighting the stereotyping of the art form and breaking down the barriers of racism in the conservative art form.

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