Theres no right or wrong timing with it, Trimbur told us.
Its just up to your interpretation.
This feedback, coupled with her own disappointing adult ballet experience, inspired Trimbur to launchBalletcore.
Trimbur intends forBalletcoreto chip away at the protective shells that keep so many people from the joy of dance.
I encourage people to be rebel ballerinasI want the class to have this f*ck perfection feeling.
Her encouragement looks like it’s working.
actress, writer, dancer, choreographer, and creator of dance classesBalletcoreandThirteen
I want people to embrace this rebellious feeling and release the people-pleasing part of their personality, says Trimbur.
No matter how much I tried to lengthen my limbs, they would only stretch so far.
Thankfully, I was at a performing arts high school in Toronto that was a rare utopia of acceptance.
At my university, dance classes were too expensive, so I started going to the gym instead.
For the first few years, I found the same release through exercise.
But eventually, working out became myonlyform of self care.
When life started to feel more out of control, I began to force control on my body.
Three gym visits a week gradually turned into five, and soon enough, I was going every day.
Eventually, I was so disconnected from my body that Ilost too much weightand needed to quit exercise entirely.
actress, writer, dancer, choreographer, and creator of dance classesBalletcoreandThirteen
In the three years since, Ive struggled to cope with difficult emotions without movement.
Now, my goal is not to control my physical being but to embody it.
The two are incompatible.
I know what Trimbur means.
InBalletcore, being weird and uninhibited and just totally yourselfiscool.
Trimbur tells me she notices people become more comfortable with themselves the more classes they attend.
Theres a whole evolution I see visually, Trimbur says.
Making mistakes and being intentionally imperfect in class has made me less perfectionistic in my work, too.
(After all, it couldalwaysbe better.)
Theres a freeness that bleeds into everything when youre more gentle on yourself, says Trimbur.
Theyre not taking themselves as seriously anymore, she says.
No ones watching, Trimbur assured us.
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