A former dancer for the Royal Ballet is launching a British TV series called Big Ballet aimed at encouraging larger dancers, which is something you just don’t hear enough of (unless you’re re-watching the now-defunct Bunheads, unwilling to accept ABC Family’s capricious decision-making process).
Wayne Sleep, now the UK’s Education Secretary, recently told the Telegraph that his new show, Big Ballet, will show young dancers that they shouldn’t be dissuaded from dance simply because of their physical shape. Take Sleep, for instance, who, not unlike Carl Cramer (if we stop talking about Bunheads, who will keep the memory alive?), was told that he was too short to dance. Ha! Too short? Poppycock — Sleep went on to become a famous dancer, so thankyouverymuch predeterminism, but Wayne Sleep will have none of you.