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‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?

by Lyndsey Winship

As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the century. But a certain macho dismissiveness remains …“We always thought BalletBoyz was a really stupid name. We wanted not to be BalletBoyz.” says William Trevitt, founder of the company called, guess what, BalletBoyz. It w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25am on May 10, 2026