Basic Trope: Ballet dancers are portrayed as little delicate flowers of femininity.
- Straight: Alice the ballerina is graceful and feminine.
- Exaggerated: Alice always moves in an elegant, flowing manner and wears sparkly pink tutus and pretty makeup even off the stage.
- Downplayed: Alice is shown to be athletic and physically fit, but she sure doesn't act like it.
- Justified: Ballet dancers need to appear graceful and effortless even though the art form is extremely difficult and taxing.
- Inverted: Ballet is portrayed as the manliest of all sports.
- Subverted: Alice appears dainty and graceful on stage but works tirelessly off stage to get to a point where she can appear perfect while dancing.
- Double Subverted: ...though her workouts include frolicking in fields and looking pretty.
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- Averted: Nothing is sugar-coated and it's explicitly shown how difficult ballet really is.
- Enforced: The producers want to appeal to little girls and are afraid that if they show how physically taxing real ballet is, they might scare them away from it.
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- Conversed: "You know, I don't get why ballerinas are always portrayed as paragons of delicate femininity in the media. Doesn't anyone know how hard this stuff is?"
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