Post Gazette: "This Darren Aronofsky film isn't a snapshot of a day in the life of an average ballet dancer, said Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre principal dancers Alexandra Kochis and Christopher Budzynski, who had some time off to see the film this week at SouthSide Works Cinema after wrapping up the company's 'Nutcracker' run in late December.
'Unfortunately, I think ['Black Swan'] may leave a lot of people saying, 'Why would anyone want to do that because it seems really miserable,' ' said Ms. Kochis, who has danced with PBT for five seasons and Boston Ballet for 11. 'I don't think [ballet] is as bad as [the film] makes it seem. ... You probably could substitute in anything where someone really has to push themselves. It wouldn't necessarily have to be ballet.'
But this isn't stopping many dancers from wanting to see it.
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I acknowledge the perspective that the "real" ballerinas bring to a review of 'Black Swan' yet I believe that their attack on the depiction of Nina's psychosis as a representation of a ballerina's mentality is narrow minded. If I were in the position of a professional ballerina and saw 'Black Swan,' I may also make that assumption, however, as an outside source (someone who does not live, breathe, and sleep ballet) I feel that the movie did not portray the pressures of being a ballerina through Nina's inner conflict, rather, Nina was the single person with perfectionism issues. The story is not about the struggling and intense world of ballerinas, it's about a ballerina who is driven to insanity by her own desire to perfect the imperfect-able art of dance.
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