Why the toxic ballet world is resistant to change

For more than half a millennium, it has been the most outwardly beautiful of art forms; dreamt of by little girls the world over, with streams of young hopefuls throwing themselves at schools’ feet each year. Yet in recent months, a series of allegations have seemed to puncture ballet’s image. More than 50 former dancers from the Royal Ballet School and Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham told the BBC’s Panorama in September of a “toxic” culture that left them with mental health problems and ea