ellen elphick danced professionally after leaving the royal ballet school.s she suffered there. ellen elphick: ithink it broke me a bit. - i think royal broke me, and i don't think i ever really got put back together. am i one of the lucky ones cos i still had that career? maybe. but that doesn't mean i've not been left with lifelong issues that i'm just going to have to find some way to deal with. the royal ballet school says "nothing is more important" "than the happiness and continued wellbeing of its students, "and it's continuously improving and innovating "to protect their health and welfare." when issues arise it has "well—established processes" to ensure they are "addressed swiftly". the school "strives to work towards excellence", and does so with "integrity and passion". while the ballet schools insist they're doing everything they can to improve the culture, these dancers believe there's still much to do to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their successors. i think the industry wants to change. mm... ..i think they want to say that they want to

ellen elphick said this message was delivered when she was 13 to her parents from an elmhurst teacherthat was the snowball effect, really. it is expected that ballet dancers should be slim and athletic. but the industry has had a reputation for favouring extremely thin ballerinas. in 2009, aged 16, ellen won a place at the royal ballet school. there, she says, she had a one—on—one with a teacher who described the perfect line a ballerina's figure was supposed to take. she just basically said to me, "if i had a knife, this is what i would cutoff." and she literally cut my entire bum off, kind of all of half my thigh, basically, and then a third of my calf. i was just filled with hate for my body. ellen is now taking legal action against the royal ballet school for the treatment she says she suffered there. jacob tidmarsh was 11 when he joined the royal ballet school in 2014. he says some of his teachers were unpredictable and cruel. for the two and a half years i was at the ballet school, i was intimidated, humiliated and left feeling very scared and, quite frankly, broken. you don't p

ellen elphick attended both schools, and says it was a single comment from a teacher during parents�*ball effect. it is expected that ballet dancers should be slim and athletic, but the industry has had a reputation for favouring extremely thin ballerinas. in 2009, aged 16, ellen got into the royal ballet school. there, she says she had a one—on—one with a teacher who described the line a ballerina's figure was supposed to take. she just basically said to me, "if i had a knife, this is what i would cutoff." and she literally cut my entire bum off, kind of all of half my thigh, basically, and then a third of my calf. i was filled with hate for my body. ellen is now taking legal action against the royal ballet school for the treatment she says she suffered there. jacob tidmarsh was 11 when he joined royal ballet school in 2014. he says some of his teachers were unpredictable and cruel. for the two and a half years i was at the ballet school, i was... intimidated, humiliated and left feeling very scared and, quite frankly, broken. you don't prepare anyone for anything by cruelty. i i'm n

ellen elphick attended both schools, and says it was a single comment from a teacher during parents's, whilst i was sat there — that i was soft and i needed to tone up. i felt really ashamed that my body wasn't right, and that it was so bad that she had to talk to my parents about it. i was 13! then i started making myself sick. and that's when i won all the prizes. it is expected that ballet dancers should be slim and athletic, but the industry has had a reputation for favouring extremely thin ballerinas. in 2009, aged 16, ellen got into the royal ballet school. two weeks in, she says she had a one—on—one with a teacher who described the line a ballerina's figure was supposed to take. she just basically said to me, "if i had a knife, this is what i would cutoff." and she literally cut my entire bum off, kind of all of half my thigh, basically, and then a third of my calf. ellen is now taking legal action against the royal ballet school for the treatment she says she suffered there. gayle sturrock is a psychotherapist who has counselled hundreds of dancers. they would have anxiety, p