I got great news last night, but I wish they would have told me sooner.



What I want to know is where is this kid now? Is he a prima ballerina in a professional company? Or did he drop out of ballet and is now in college studying engineering or something? This could be an awesome follow-up thread!
@mom2rb are you still here?


She was here yesterday so there’s a good shot!
 


What I want to know is where is this kid now? Is he a prima ballerina in a professional company? Or did he drop out of ballet and is now in college studying engineering or something? This could be an awesome follow-up thread!
@mom2rb are you still here?
It would be Ballerino.

He just graduated from Mercyhurst University with a degree in Dance and Communications. He is having surgery to repair his labrum and shallow hip socket. According to the dr. his dance career is over. He will spend 3 months on crutches. I am probably more upset about it then he is but he has been in pain for a while.

It is Male Ballet Dancer. Ballerino is a joke on American Housewife.

I have no idea why this post was pulled up, weird.
 
He just graduated from Mercyhurst University with a degree in Dance and Communications. He is having surgery to repair his labrum and shallow hip socket. According to the dr. his dance career is over. He will spend 3 months on crutches. I am probably more upset about it then he is but he has been in pain for a while.

It is Male Ballet Dancer. Ballerino is a joke on American Housewife.

I have no idea why this post was pulled up, weird.

No idea about American Housewife, but ballerino is correct for male ballet dancer.
 
Ballerino is used in Italian for a “male dancer” who dances principal roles in a ballet company. As ballerino is not commonly used in English speaking countries, it doesn’t hold much regard or honor as the term ballerina does and is sometimes used sarcastically to describe a male dancer. Today, boys or men who dance ballet are simply called “male ballet dancers” in English.
 
Ballerino is used in Italian for a “male dancer” who dances principal roles in a ballet company. As ballerino is not commonly used in English speaking countries, it doesn’t hold much regard or honor as the term ballerina does and is sometimes used sarcastically to describe a male dancer. Today, boys or men who dance ballet are simply called “male ballet dancers” in English.

I am accustomed to it being used during ballet forums my daughter used to attend.
 
Thank you, Mom2rb, for the update even if the thread is rather old. I'm waiting for one of mine to get resurrected. Hopefully not my DIL and me at the campsite!! Even tho we were Up North in Michigan terms, the thread went south quite quickly. :teeth:
 
I think many of us "old timers" are afraid of one of our threads getting resurrected (boys in womens bathrooms, cough, cough...).

And I"m sorry to hear of your son's surgeries/injuries. No matter what they're officially called, anyone, male or female, who can dance at that level is impressive.

Terri
 
He just graduated from Mercyhurst University with a degree in Dance and Communications. He is having surgery to repair his labrum and shallow hip socket. According to the dr. his dance career is over. He will spend 3 months on crutches. I am probably more upset about it then he is but he has been in pain for a while.

It is Male Ballet Dancer. Ballerino is a joke on American Housewife.

I have no idea why this post was pulled up, weird.

DD is a semi-professional dancer. She was a soloist, choreographer, and ballet mistress for many years in a local company. Now she's moved and is teaching dance (ballet/pointe and contemporary). One of my very best online dance-mom-buddies had a daughter with a torn acetabular labrum. She made a pretty decent recovery; no more pointe work, but she's dancing with a modern company near Indianapolis. There is always hope!!
 
He just graduated from Mercyhurst University with a degree in Dance and Communications. He is having surgery to repair his labrum and shallow hip socket. According to the dr. his dance career is over. He will spend 3 months on crutches. I am probably more upset about it then he is but he has been in pain for a while.

Can he still teach or choreograph?
 
Can he still teach or choreograph?

We won’t know for at least 3 months. Right now he says that he is done, he has been in so much pain but wanted to graduate. When he feels better, who knows. He has been dancing for 14 years. I think that he just wants to see what else is out there.
 
We won’t know for at least 3 months. Right now he says that he is done, he has been in so much pain but wanted to graduate. When he feels better, who knows. He has been dancing for 14 years. I think that he just wants to see what else is out there.

This thread (and time in general) is so weird. I just read about a 9 year old in the Nutcracker and then read that he's graduated from college. Which was 12 years but for me was about a minute.

By the way, how was the 2007 performance of the Nutcracker?
 
He just graduated from Mercyhurst University with a degree in Dance and Communications. He is having surgery to repair his labrum and shallow hip socket. According to the dr. his dance career is over. He will spend 3 months on crutches. I am probably more upset about it then he is but he has been in pain for a while.

It is Male Ballet Dancer. Ballerino is a joke on American Housewife.

I have no idea why this post was pulled up, weird.

Thanks for the update! I'm so sorry that the timing was such that it's at a really difficult point in his life. I hope the surgery is successful and that he finds the perfect path for him after college.
 

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