Can anyone tell me what percent of professional ballet dancers are male?

A Source would be great too. I dont care if they gay or straight, just how many there are. Thanks!!

Can anyone tell me what percent of professional ballet dancers are male?home theatre

G'day Lozza,

Thank you for your question.

In the professional ranks, it is fifty per cent. In the lower ranks, men are a distinct minority.

According to an article in the New York Times (see link below) "In 2007 being the only boy 鈥?at an audition, in a class, in a recital 鈥?is still a routine experience for ballet students in the United States. Men are well represented at the highest ranks of American ballet: at New York City Ballet, for which the school is the official academy, men (many of them foreign-born) make up more than 50 percent of principals and soloists and also hold the posts of ballet master and resident choreographer. Still, at the entry level boys remain a distinct minority. Of the 544 New York-area children ages 6 through 10 who turned out for the School of American Ballet鈥檚 open auditions in May, just 65 were boys."

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