Dancers are National Human Treasure, not the disposable stocks.
New York City Ballet must reinstate two principal male dancers who they fired on account of exchanging nude photos.
It may not be plausible conduct but serious enough to be fired?
No. It did not violate the work ethic, not criminal.
If the Plaintiff who sued NYCB did not add two names to the Complaint, NYCB would not have fired them.
Just to be defensive, by demonstrating “Oh no, we are not tolerating those conducts,” to deny the accusation of the Plaintiff, “The NYCBS and the ballet company have been providing the fraternity atmosphere to induce such incidence.,” they sacrificed the two principal male dancers.
It is understandable that whoever now the acting artistic director(s) as their roles to protect the company tends to be defensive, over-reacted to preserve the reputation, instead of considering the matters more thoughtful independent evaluation. Is it ethical to ruin two principal dancers just to present a superficially good face to the administration of the ballet company?
Let’s get back to the original standpoint; if Mr. Balenchine were alive now, how would he treat those two valuable dancers. The answer would be obvious. He is confident about his school and company. He would not sacrifice those two men. He would also extend his hand to Plaintiff, the young female dancer, to return to the company because he knew that it is life to secure dancing activities for a ballet dancer.
I sympathize with the young lady very much. She was upset so severely that her boyfriend emailed her nude photos to his male friends with derogatory comments. She is so mad that she wanted to destroy his career, so she sued the ballet company, too. That was not enough. She added two other male dancers who purportedly exchanged the photos. She destroyed their career. What is the saddest thing is that she quit the ballet company. She is about to ruin her career, too.
What the ballet company should do is to save her and two male principal dancers. What she wants is, as she said, that the company should change. Instead of being defensive and asserting, “No, we are OK.”, the company should have listened to their students, faculty, ballet dancers, and ballet masters & mistress; from there, some better change or solution would come out. To be able to join the Ballet Company, how many years, they discipline themselves. Dancers are national human treasures; we have to treat them with delicate hands. They are precious stone ground and polished.
NYC Ballet Scandal
Dancers are National Human Treasure
The Kingdom of the Bright
Where do you come from?
Are you the prince from “The Kingdom of Shade”
or “The Kingdom of Light?”
If you are from the former,
you are about to step into the latter?
If you are from the latter,
you are about to explore to find “The Kingdom of Bright?”
Ahead of your journey, difficult, challenging, weary,
Yet, you will reach “The Kingdom of Bright,”
where you find different yourself,
being filled with Delight.
You will change the misfortune to a blessing;
you will taste “Elegant Revenge.”
Inspired by unfortunate NCB male dancers – 2018
Dedicating to Miss Waterbury
Greatest sympathy to your feeling of being humiliated, which exploded anger, understandable, but your rage engulfed the unrelated parties just like a frustrated person harmed bystanders You see, a man and woman relation, each has responsibility You know, no one force you, but you choose your boyfriend Being aware of your responsibility to the tragedy, find out what factors contributed to your attraction to him, you would be closer to walk out of the humiliation. Prove what of you blinded yourself not to notice insincere clues By facing your fault, you would improve and grow Next time, you would be wiser to choose the best among abundant suitors. Being so beautiful and wise, you would end up “Happily ever after.” Be a living “Tatiana,” and hopefully, you would dance Tatiana in “Onegin,” too. Drop the names of principal male dancers from the Complaint, Dragging unrelated men into your bitterness, you would not recover from suffering. Drop the suit altogether The ballet company did not force you to be his girlfriend. They are not a shepherd of dancers in their private time Let’s assume that you will win and get some money; the weight of humiliation would be defined as so much money. Rewarded for the attitude of blaming others in human relations, you would repeat a similar bitter game. Let’s recall a great actress, Elizabeth Taylor. She divorced her first husband, the son of Hilton Hotel Chains She could have gained substantial money if she sued him. She refused to do so, saying, “I don’t want his dirty money.”
2018
Dancers are Human Treasure
Dancers are Human Treasure, not disposable stock. New York City Ballet fired two principal male dancers unjustly. Alleged conduct, exchanging nude photos, may not be appropriate, but it should not cost them their job. Just because being sued by a former female student accusing the ballet company of fostering a “fraternity-like atmosphere,“ in their defensive maneuver to deny the allegation, it opted to sacrifice two precious principal male dancers. Two dancers are in the prime time, which may not last long, they are like birds being deprived of their wings. Without flying, the bird cannot live. Without dancing, the dancers cannot live. Let them come back and dance again. Dancers are Human Treasure, not disposable stock.
Inspired by the sad incident in New York City Ballet 2018