Theresa Ruth Howard on creating more diversity – Positioning Ballet 2017 – Dutch National Ballet

Dutch National Ballet organizes the international ballet conference Positioning Ballet every year. The summit of the ballet world came together to debate and reflect on a number of themes: heritage, diversity and identity.

Theresa Ruth Howard – former dancer, journalist and initiator of Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet – gave a keynote about diversity in ballet. It was a passionate argument about openness, diversity and responsibility: “All you have to do is invite people in.”

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