Hi, my name is scout for a safe and I'm a professional ballet dancer with american ballet theater and today I'm going to be debunking misconceptions about ballerinas when people find out I'm a professional ballet dancer, They always have some weird stuff to say.

大家好，我的名字是安全的偵察兵，我是美國芭蕾舞劇院的專業芭蕾舞演員，今天我要揭開關於芭蕾舞演員的誤解，當人們發現我是一個專業的芭蕾舞演員時，他們總是有一些奇怪的東西要說。

So I'm going to be answering some of the most common assumptions and misconceptions about ballerinas.

是以，我將回答關於芭蕾舞演員的一些最常見的假設和誤解。

Today I threw it out there on Instagram for people to write in what they thought.

今天我在Instagram上把它扔出去，讓人們寫下他們的想法。

I got over 185 responses so I broke them down into categories, Diet, lifestyle, body, personality, career point shoes and dance.

我得到了超過185個回覆，所以我把它們抽成了幾類，飲食、生活方式、身體、個性、職業點鞋和舞蹈。

This is definitely the biggest section and the most common question I get all ballerinas are teeny tiny skinny people who don't eat, they never eat anything like ballet dancers eat nothing slash starve themselves eating disorders, Body dysmorphia.

這絕對是最大的部分，也是我得到的最常見的問題，所有的芭蕾舞演員都是十幾歲的小瘦子，他們從來不吃任何東西，就像芭蕾舞演員什麼都不吃，斜著餓自己，飲食失調，身體變形。

You're working out from 10 to 7 with an hour break and you're eating a lot of food because you need fuel for that, but you're working your body so hard that naturally you just become lean.

你從10點到7點鍛鍊，休息一小時，你吃了很多食物，因為你需要燃料，但你的身體如此辛苦，自然而然你就變得瘦了。

Yes, there is a skinny culture and ballet, there is a stigma and reward system for being and looking a certain way.

是的，有一個瘦身文化和芭蕾舞，有一個恥辱和獎勵制度，因為是和看起來有某種方式。

I think that needs to change.

我認為這需要改變。

I personally would rather see a woman out there dancing than somebody who looks like they're about to lose their last breath on stage eating disorders.

我個人更願意看到一個女人在外面跳舞，而不是那些看起來像要在舞臺上失去最後一口氣的飲食失調的人。

Body dysmorphia.

身體畸形症。

I think it's something that dancers struggle with, I can say I've struggled with looking at myself in the mirror and just being like, you don't like that.

我想這是舞者掙扎的東西，我可以說我掙扎過，看著鏡子裡的自己，就像，你不喜歡那樣。

but our generation is becoming so much more knowledgeable about health, we're understanding that the starving yourself and then trying to get a full performance out, like that's just not possible for a human to do that.

但我們這一代人對健康的瞭解越來越多，我們明白，讓自己捱餓，然後試圖獲得完整的表現，就像人類不可能做到這一點。

Okay, so these are the more like realistic assumptions, I would say, dancers take good care of themselves and live a healthy lifestyle.

好的，所以這些是更像現實的假設，我會說，舞者要好好照顧自己，過健康的生活。

They're all super healthy eaters and vegans and perfectionists.

他們都是超級健康的飲食者和素食主義者，也是完美主義者。

The perfectionist thing is probably true.

完美主義者的事情可能是真的。

Not everybody is a vegan, they eat a lot of protein you eat to aid your digestion and mood.

不是每個人都是素食主義者，他們吃很多蛋白質你吃了有助於消化和心情。

I think one of the biggest things that people don't understand about dancers is like, we are so in tune with our bodies, you're eating a bunch of salts and you feel swollen the next day, alcohol wise, I really don't like to drink a lot of alcohol, especially don't do it during the week, alcohol, super dehydrating to the body, so I'm not going to be drinking while I've got a full 23 hour show that night, multiple ones of like, they're vegan, they're vegan, they're vegan personal story.

我認為人們不瞭解舞者的最大原因之一是，我們與我們的身體是如此的協調，你吃了一堆鹽，第二天你會感覺到腫脹，從酒精方面來說，我真的不喜歡喝很多酒。特別是在一週內不做，酒精，對身體超級脫水，所以我不會在當晚有整整23小時的演出時喝酒，多個像，他們是素食者，他們是素食者，他們是素食者的個人故事。

I went vegan for five years and I was really struggling with my hormones at that point, I started skipping periods and that is kind of scary because that affects your bone health.

我吃了五年的素食，那時我真的在與我的荷爾蒙作鬥爭，我開始跳過月經，這有點可怕，因為這影響到你的骨骼健康。

So I started re introducing me to my diet, you know, monthly, like when I was menstruating, I crave red meat and I'm gonna give myself that like, here's an example of like a day I wake up in the morning, love, love, love my coffee and then avocado toast, fried egg on top.

所以我開始重新向我介紹我的飲食，你知道，每個月，比如我在經期的時候，我渴望吃紅肉，我要給自己，比如，這裡有一個例子，比如我在早上醒來，愛，愛，愛我的咖啡，然後牛油果吐司，上面有煎蛋。

And then I always have like a banana or apple or something to snack on.

然後我總是有像香蕉或蘋果之類的東西來吃。

I'm sipping coconut water throughout the whole day.

我一整天都在喝椰子水。

Lunch is usually some kind of salad or soup and then going home to dinner of like roasted veggies and like a big kale salad and then maybe occasionally like a piece of steak or salmon or just some tofu.

午餐通常是某種沙拉或湯，然後回家吃烤蔬菜和大甘藍沙拉等晚餐，然後也許偶爾會吃一塊牛排或三文魚，或者只是一些豆腐。

Like I'm down kind of for whatever.

就像我對任何事情都很上心一樣。

Yeah, just trying to eat clean.

是的，只是想吃得乾淨。

And then there's definitely like potato chips somewhere thrown in there and like maybe a piece of chocolate or like a pint of ice cream.

然後肯定會有像薯片一樣的東西扔在那裡，就像也許一塊巧克力或像一品脫冰淇淋。

So here's something I got a lot.

所以這裡有一些我得到了很多。

Their entire life is ballet and no private life as possible, no social life.

他們的全部生活就是芭蕾舞，儘可能沒有私人生活，沒有社會生活。

I assume that ballerinas don't have time for much outside of training.

我想，芭蕾舞演員在訓練之外沒有什麼時間。

There's a little bit of truth in that, but a normal rehearsal chunk, which would be like usually a week to Maybe six weeks were working Tuesday through Saturday, and then, you know, multiple times out of the year we're performing until late in the evening, but that's very seasonal, it's not all the time.

這話有一點道理，但正常的排練時間，通常是一週到六週，從週二到週六都在工作，然後，你知道，一年中有好幾次我們要演出到深夜，但這是非常季節性的，不是所有的時間。

So, you know, yeah, you're hustling for two months, three months out of the year.

所以，你知道，是的，你在一年中的兩個月或三個月裡都在忙於工作。

But other than that, like you're able to just finish your day and go have a dinner with friends or go get a massage or on the weekends, like run out to the beach.

但除此之外，就像你能夠完成你的一天，去和朋友吃個飯，或者去做個按摩，或者在週末，比如跑到海灘上去。

The next one is ballet is the most important thing in your life.

接下來是芭蕾舞是你生活中最重要的事情。

Like black swan serious?

像黑天鵝一樣嚴重嗎？

Not just passion.

不僅僅是激情。

No the thing I can't stress enough is black swan is someone's imagination in a movie.

不，我無法強調的是黑天鵝是某人在電影中的想象。

It is not real.

它是不真實的。

There's a lot of stuff in that movie that I'm just uh yeah it's funny in the beginning of the movie of black swan when they're waiting for casting and he comes around and taps all the girls in class.

那部電影裡有很多東西，我只是......是的，在電影《黑天鵝》的開頭，當他們在等待選拔時，他走過來拍打班上所有的女生，這很有趣。

Like that just would not happen.

就像那是不會發生的。

You know what's going to happen for the season ahead Like there's preparation that goes into it, it's not just like oh you get it, you get it like the casting goes up, you see it, you walk by, you might have already been in rehearsal for it.

你知道未來這一季會發生什麼，就像有準備工作要做一樣，這不是像哦你得到它，你得到它，就像選秀權上升，你看到它，你走過去，你可能已經在排練它。

So that seems a little funky to me towards the end of the movie where Natalie apartment character, she is late for rehearsal and the Milligan's character is dancing and rehearsing and her hair is down like you know you wouldn't be rehearsing swan like with your hair down and out of a but like that's just silly to me and then also in the end to when she jumps off onto the mattress which it wouldn't be a mattress, it would be like full stationary foam, like good stuff to fall into.

是以，在電影的結尾處，我覺得有點古怪，娜塔莉公寓的角色，她在排練時遲到了，而米利根的角色正在跳舞和排練，她的頭髮披散下來，就像你知道你不會在排練天鵝時把頭髮披散下來，但這對我來說很傻，然後在結尾處，當她跳到床墊上時，那就不是床墊了，應該是全固定的保麗龍，就像掉進去的好東西。

Not just like an old mattress bed bugs, like new york and she's like, I was perfect.

不僅僅是像舊床墊上的臭蟲，像紐約，她就像，我很完美。

It's a live performance and that's something that's so beautiful about ballet and so enticing.

這是一個現場表演，而這正是芭蕾舞的美妙之處，也是如此誘人。

I think for dancers is that there's never perfection.

我認為對舞蹈演員來說，永遠沒有完美。

Like you can always constantly build on its never ending.

就像你總是可以不斷地在其上建立永無止境。

Yes.

是的。

Ballet is extremely important to me, but it's not life consuming where I identify only with ballet and if somebody gets a role that I wanted, I'm not going to be pushing them down the stairs, backstabbing like the sabotage stuff that just doesn't happen.

芭蕾舞對我來說極其重要，但它並不消耗生命，我只認同芭蕾舞，如果有人得到我想要的角色，我不會把他們推下樓梯，背地裡像破壞一樣的東西，只是沒有發生。

I've heard stories from the older ones, but I think there's a really cool vibe happening with our generation of dancers.

我聽過老一輩人的故事，但我認為我們這一代舞者身上發生了一種非常酷的氛圍。

We understand that life is life and ballet is that life?

我們明白，生活就是生活，而芭蕾舞就是這種生活？

So continuing on the body section, this is my favorite.

所以繼續說身體部分，這是我的最愛。

Your feet bleed bruised feet.

你的腳流著淤血的腳。

They've been pretty good to me.

他們對我一直很好。

I've had like two blisters my entire life.

我這輩子好像只有兩個水泡。

I have calluses for sure.

我肯定有老繭。

I have a corn in one of my pinky toes, dancers do work their butts off, but isn't really that big of a deal to have calluses now.

我的一個小腳趾上有一個玉米，舞者確實在努力工作，但現在有老繭也不是什麼大問題。

It's so badass that our bodies literally make callouses to protect themselves and to like build up like basically a coat of armor.

它是如此糟糕，以至於我們的身體從字面上看會產生繭子來保護自己，並像基本上建立了一層盔甲一樣。

Like I think it's such like a badge to have these like super, you know, like these feet can handle stuff I can walk across rocks and not even bat an eyelash like my feet are strong.

我認為擁有這些像超級的，你知道的，像這些腳可以處理的東西，我可以走過岩石，甚至不眨眼，就像我的腳很強壯一樣，這是這樣的一個徽章。

A lot of dancers have normal feet definitely for sure have calluses blisters corns.

很多舞者的腳是正常的，肯定會有老繭水泡雞眼。

But for the most part, like we have such good technology of like toe padding space, there's all that stuff and are so much more aware of like self care when it comes to feet that I think this is kind of an old school way of thinking.

但在大多數情況下，我們有這麼好的技術，比如腳趾墊的空間，還有所有這些東西，而且在涉及到腳的時候，我們對自我護理的認識要多得多，我想這是一種老派的思維方式。

Here's another one.

這是另一個。

They have constant injuries.

他們有不斷的傷病。

The dancer injury rate is 100% dancers get injured.

舞蹈家的受傷率是100%，舞蹈家會受傷。

It's a part of the job.

這是工作的一部分。

I've been a professional now for six years and I've only had one injury that really just took me out for a good solid like four months, 14 month injury in a span of six years.

我成為職業選手已經六年了，我只有一次受傷，真的只是讓我好好地休息了四個月，在六年的時間裡有14個月的受傷。

Like the odds are pretty good at that point.

就像在這一點上，機率是相當大的。

You avoid injuries by working smart, really working on that technique and getting that strength and doing things properly and having somebody help.

你可以通過聰明的工作，真正的技術工作，獲得這種力量，正確地做事情，並得到別人的幫助來避免受傷。

You just ask for help.

你只是要求幫助。

So, hey, I need a coach right now, I need somebody to look at this.

所以，嘿，我現在需要一個教練，我需要有人來看看這個。

There's a weird feeling here.

這裡有一種奇怪的感覺。

And yeah, just being aware of that.

而且是的，只是意識到這一點。

Ballerinas will have long term body issues because of their work.

芭蕾舞演員會因為他們的工作而有長期的身體問題。

Yeah, you see replacements with the answer's quite often.

是的，你經常看到有答案的替換品。

So there is some truth in the long term issues, but ballet technique has been crafted for hundreds and hundreds of years.

是以，長期的問題是有一定道理的，但芭蕾舞技術已經被精心打造了幾百年，幾百年了。

So there's a lot of thought process that also went into like landing from jumps.

是以，有很多思考的過程，也進入了像從跳躍著陸。

The reason we roll through the feet is one, it's aesthetically pleasing in two.

我們從腳下滾過的原因是一，它在二是美觀。

It's helpful for shock absorption on your body were going to pretend this is my Marley right here and here's my point shoes.

這對身體的減震很有幫助，我們要假裝這是我的馬利，這是我的點鞋。

I jump up and I roll through the foot coming down instead of just going conch.

我跳起來，我通過腳下的滾動下來，而不是直接走海螺。

And that hard landing that's shocks into your ankle which goes into your knee and hits bodies and everything.

而那種硬著陸，衝擊著你的腳踝，進入你的膝蓋，打到身體和一切。

So it's like that roll down that helps with allowing the body to slowly control the weight that's coming from up above.

是以，就像那個滾下來的東西，有助於讓身體慢慢控制從上面傳來的重量。

So ballet is like any other sport out there.

是以，芭蕾舞就像外面的任何其他運動。

There is going to be long term effects that happen down the road because of just how much we're working our bodies.

由於我們對自己的身體進行了大量的工作，所以會有長期的影響發生。

But I mean it's kind of the sacrifice that you make because you love what you do.

但我的意思是，這是你做出的一種犧牲，因為你喜歡你的工作。

You do not have to have long hair to be a dancer or to put it in a but there's ways you can make fake buns.

你不一定要有長髮才能成為一個舞者，也不一定要把它放在一個，但你有辦法做假髮髻。

I knew a girl that has full pixie cut and she was a professional ballet dancer.

我認識一個女孩，她剪了全額的小精靈，她是一個專業的芭蕾舞者。

You just work with what you've got cos can't require you to have a certain type of hair.

你只是用你所擁有的東西工作，因為不能要求你有某種類型的頭髮。

I think kind of the only requirement.

我想這是唯一的要求。

And ask is that you keep your hair and natural color.

並要求是你保持你的頭髮和自然顏色。

Okay, so now we're moving on to personality, There's a lot of competition and meanness within dancers.

好了，現在我們轉到個性方面，舞者內部有很多競爭和卑劣。

Huh?

嗯？

Dancers are neurotic obsessive narcissistic ballerinas are catty competitive and mean, no it's not black swan.

舞者是神經質的強迫性自戀者，芭蕾舞者是斤斤計較的競爭者和刻薄者，不，這不是黑天鵝。

Like I can't stress that enough.

好像我怎麼強調都不為過。

People aren't putting shards of glass and other people's point shoes, especially the culture at A B.

人們並沒有把玻璃碎片和其他人的點鞋，特別是A B的文化。

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I feel like I've been so fortunate and lucky.

我覺得我一直很幸運，很有福氣。

Like the support we have for each other, where I've gone in there, had a bad day crying in the dressing room, I've got at least six women around me being like, let's talk.

就像我們對彼此的支持一樣，我在那裡，有一個糟糕的一天在更衣室裡哭泣，我有至少六個女人在我身邊，就像，讓我們談談。

How are you feeling?

你感覺如何？

Women are the best things ever.

女人是最好的東西。

Like, come on, we support each other and love each other and that's how we get stuff done and that's how our performance happens.

就像，來吧，我們互相支持，互相愛護，這就是我們完成任務的方式，這就是我們的表現。

Ballerinas need a strong character and ego in order to handle the job.

芭蕾舞演員需要有強烈的性格和自我，才能勝任這項工作。

There is some truth in that you have to be a strong person.

有一些道理，你必須成為一個堅強的人。

You're going to take some criticism.

你將會受到一些責備。

I don't know one single person out there that hasn't had no said to them, You're never going to do this, You're not good enough and you can either take that and allow it to cripple you or you can be like, I'm gonna show you You do not determine my fate, I do moving onto career.

我不知道有哪個人沒有對他們說過，你永遠不會做這個，你不夠好，你要麼接受這個，讓它削弱你，要麼你可以像這樣，我要告訴你，你不決定我的命運，我決定進入職業生涯。

Uh this is something I think everybody gets asked a million questions about.

呃，這是我認為每個人都會被問到的一百萬個問題的東西。

You have to start when you're young, you need to start when you were a child and when the bones and body are still flexible.

你必須從年輕的時候開始，你需要在你還是個孩子的時候，在骨骼和身體仍然靈活的時候開始。

If not started young, then not accepted.

如果不從年輕時開始，就不接受。

You cannot become a professional ballerina if you start late at 16, I started 11.

如果你16歲才開始，就不能成為職業芭蕾舞演員，我是11歲開始的。

I consider that early to be starting a professional career.

我認為那是早期開始的職業生涯。

I have really dear friend of mine, he was 20 years old when he waltzed into a ballet class he was like, oh, that looks cool, I'm gonna try it for the year.

我有一個非常親愛的朋友，他20歲的時候，當他跳著華爾茲進入一個芭蕾舞班時，他說，哦，這看起來很酷，我要去嘗試一年。

He had a successful professional career, misty Copeland didn't start until she was later in life.

他有一個成功的職業生涯，米斯蒂-科普蘭直到晚年才開始。

There's no magic number in order to become a professional.

要想成為一名專業人員，沒有什麼神奇的數字。

Here's the other end of this question.

下面是這個問題的另一端。

Ballerinas retire.

芭蕾舞演員退休。

Super young Ballerinas have to retire in their early 30s.

超級年輕的芭蕾舞演員不得不在30歲出頭時退休。

You know, you become a professional and you've probably got 10-15 years and that's about it.

你知道，你成為一個專業人士，你可能有10-15年的時間，這就是它。

I would say like 30 35 is probably the average age that people retire, what we're doing is so hard and rigid and extreme on the body that you can kind of only handle it until you're in your prime.

我想說的是，30-35歲可能是人們退休的平均年齡，我們所做的事情對身體來說是如此艱難、僵硬和極端，你只能在你的壯年時期才能承受。

That being said alessandra Ferri is in her fifties and still performing Juliet, there are anomalies out there, but it's not a shock that I'm going to be turning around 35 have to end my career as a dancer.

話雖如此，alessandra Ferri已經50多歲了，還在表演朱麗葉，外面有一些反常現象，但我要轉過來35歲就要結束我的舞蹈家生涯，這並不令人震驚。

I think that's why a lot of people also give it their all.

我想這就是為什麼很多人也會全力以赴。

And this ties into the beginning question of like, you have no social life, you can't do anything like our career short.

這與一開始的問題有關，比如，你沒有社會生活，你不能做任何像我們的職業短板。

So we're gonna put everything my heart and soul into it because I know that it's only temporary.

所以我們要把我的全部心血都投入進去，因為我知道這只是暫時的。

And so you gotta enjoy it while you can just because you're not dancing on stage after you're retired.

所以你得趁機享受它，只是因為你退休後不會在舞臺上跳舞。

Doesn't mean your career in ballet is over.

這並不意味著你的芭蕾舞生涯已經結束。

Like so many dancers go into choreography teaching open up their own dance studio.

就像很多舞者進入編舞教學領域，開了自己的舞蹈工作室。

Give back to the new generation coming up.

回饋即將到來的新生代。

Like if you feel like you want to stay within the ballet industry, it's totally possible to do.

比如你覺得你想留在芭蕾舞行業內，這完全是可以做到的。

All right.

好的。

Next assumption.

下一個假設。

Ballerinas automatically retired after having a baby false with so many moms in the company right now.

芭蕾舞演員在生完孩子後自動退役，現在公司裡有那麼多媽媽，這是個假的。

It's so awesome.

它是如此令人敬畏。

A lot of dancers have their babies take their year off usually to do everything and then come back sometimes stronger than ever.

很多舞者讓他們的孩子休息一年，通常是為了做所有的事情，然後回來的時候有時比以前更強大。

Coaches are mean a f Yeah, I've had many coaches in the past.

教練們都很刻薄 是的，我過去有很多教練。

I had one teacher.

我有一個老師。

She wouldn't allow us to wear toe pads and her pointe shoes.

她不允許我們穿護趾板和她的尖頭鞋。

So I used to wear my toe pads in my flat shoes with the tights over it and then I would just slip them into my point.

是以，我習慣在平底鞋中穿上我的腳趾墊，外面套上緊身衣，然後我就把它們塞進我的點。

She's real quick when she wasn't looking.

她在不經意間真的很快。

But I think everybody's different.

但我認為每個人都是不同的。

Everybody's personalities different.

每個人的個性不同。

I wouldn't say coaches are mean, I would say their sometimes harsh there sometimes very truthful, but I don't think truth is mean.

我不會說教練是卑鄙的，我會說他們有時很嚴厲，有時很真實，但我不認為真實是卑鄙的。

I think sometimes it's hard to hear.

我認為有時很難聽到。

These are questions I get from men mostly.

這些問題大多是我從男人那裡得到的。

Is that a real job?

那是一份真正的工作嗎？

You get paid for that.

你會是以得到報酬。

They don't get paid a lot.

他們沒有得到很多報酬。

Ballet dancers struggled to make a living out of your job over in europe.

在歐洲，芭蕾舞者為謀生而努力工作。

They're really lucky.

他們真的很幸運。

They're government funded over there.

他們在那裡是由政府資助的。

So ballet dancers get a lifetime contract and they can make your career off of that.

是以，芭蕾舞者得到了一個終身合同，他們可以靠這個來成就你的事業。

That's not something we have in America.

這不是我們在美國有的東西。

Unfortunately, we are publicly funded where a non profit organization and every ballet company out there is, you know, I've worked my butt off, I've joined a B.

不幸的是，我們是公共資助的非營利組織，而外面的每一個芭蕾舞團都是，你知道，我已經工作了我的屁股，我已經加入了一個B。

T.

T.

I mean the number one ballet company in America, we have an extreme amount of funding.

我的意思是美國第一大芭蕾舞團，我們有極多的資金。

I am able to live my lifestyle based off of my one singular job I have with american ballet theater.

我能夠依靠我在美國芭蕾舞劇院的一份獨特的工作來維持我的生活方式。

That's not the case for every company we can perform more.

這不是每個公司的情況，我們可以執行更多。

We go around tour where it's like a smaller company maybe has half the amount of weeks that they work.

我們去參觀，那裡就像一個小公司也許有一半的工作週數。

So they have to get a second job on the side is a real job.

所以他們必須在邊上找第二份工作是一份真正的工作。