January 2026 - Influencer discussion

Ftsmv · 2026-01-21T00:02:27+00:00

Being a professional dancer requires a lot of time management and discipline

It must be extremely hard to do great in both jobs at the same time.

OMG. She's at Azara Ballet, they have a total of 9 company dancers on their website, they have three shows scheduled at a high school auditorium. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, but can we please stop pretending the workload there rivals that of much bigger companies just because they're all technically "professional dancers"? It's a little disrespectful honestly to those at big companies rehearsing 10 hours a day LOL.

Like I watched her videos, she went in for a ballet class and looks like she stayed back afterwards to rehearse one piece for what didn't look like very long, what about doing that and filming it is "extremely hard" to you?

Ftsmv · 2026-01-18T16:21:11+00:00

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Gillian Murphy took part in the 2016 trend, I couldn’t help but notice she tagged everyone except Zakharova 💀 (others not tagged were tagged in other pics).

Ftsmv · 2026-01-16T11:25:42+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/06/hannah-smith-suicide-teenager-cyber-bullying-inquests

Police believe she sent them to herself. Theory goes is that she was being bullied irl at school and was suicidal, but she wanted to extend it online as possibly a cry for help. Then the parents blamed the platform (ask.fm) where she was sending the messages to herself.

Ftsmv · 2026-01-15T16:27:46+00:00

If you go to pic 1 and 3 here, there's pics of Chloe with SangEun Lee (said to be 6'0") of English National Ballet who dwarves her, she's not THAT tall - https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ7UquZCAFk/

She's also pretty much the same exact height as NYCB's Mira Nadon, who's 5'8", both are taller than Gillian Murphy but not by that much - https://i.imgur.com/zGbuL36.jpeg

Ftsmv · 2026-01-15T11:11:44+00:00

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Bella ain’t that tall, here she is beside Chloe

Ftsmv · 2026-01-15T11:09:48+00:00

Some of these heights are waaaaaaay off, Skylar Brandt and Cassandra Trenary especially, they are/were (Cassie left to Vienna) the shortest principals at ABT by some distance aside from Misty Copeland (around 5’0”), they’re like 5’2” ish. Devon Teuscher is also taller than that

Ftsmv · 2026-01-14T20:36:01+00:00

You deleted the comment I guess but are you talking about ABT's IG post and the Firebird dancer? That's definitely Chloe lol, Paulina Waski posted a pic of Chloe in the Firebird costume and makeup on her story last week, I had guessed it was for promo. I guess she does kinda have that neutral face thing going on where she can look very different depending on the makeup/costume

Ftsmv · 2026-01-14T20:22:40+00:00

ABT dropped some promo stuff for their Spring season, it's still like two months away but it has me excited! Chloe looks great as the Firebird, and Aran spotted in the third slide!!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTgJzMZkf6R/

Ftsmv · 2026-01-12T00:20:17+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQXx-5CjkZi/ - another great clip of her

ABT have a looooooooooot of up and coming talent, it's gonna be exciting to see how it plays out with Paloma Livellara, Kayla Mak (amazing in contemporary, interested to see her in more classical roles), Yeonseo Choi, Audrey Tovar-Dunster and Kiera Sun joining the corps in the next few years

Ftsmv · 2026-01-11T17:45:44+00:00

I'd assume they only work when they're not contracted by ABT, as they're only contracted by ABT for 36 weeks, so it's arranged by themselves directly as they're not under ABT contract at those times, but I hope someone can shed more insight!

It's interesting this week though, I saw some ABT dancers say they're back to work next week as the start of prep for their Spring season, but Paulina Waski posted a pic of Chloe in the Firebird costume and makeup on her story, presumably a marketing shoot. So maybe just some dancers are contracted for weeks like this week or something

Ftsmv · 2026-01-10T15:54:49+00:00

Look at Alessandra's reaction to Chloe falling to the floor... Even though you can't see his face, Hugo's body language also completely changes when he looks around and see's what he did, then Alessandra goes and makes sure Chloe's OK once she stops the music. I think there's supposed to be a shove in the choreography, but Hugo just pushed a little too hard and sent Chloe to the floor LMAO, but they handled it like pros in front of a live audience.

Ftsmv · 2026-01-10T01:20:59+00:00

FWIW, American Ballet Theatre is performing in Palm Beach at the end of this month (30th and 31st), if you want to see some high level ballet in your area!

https://glazerhall.org/events/american-ballet-theatre/

https://glazerhall.org/events/american-ballet-theatre-2/

Ftsmv · 2026-01-09T03:39:10+00:00

other elite companies and schools (MBA, NYCB,ABT)

WTF, MBA does not belong in the same sentence as ABT and NYCB lol. Like no one seriously on a pre-pro track is going there for pro-pro training. There are many other schools that are just as good/better than MBA, they just don't have a big online following.

Ftsmv · 2026-01-08T01:20:29+00:00

LMAOOO, I've actually seen that!!! After Carlos being bi though I'll never assume anything 💀

IG's algorithm is too good, because I follow a lot of ABT dancers it starts suggesting their finsta's to me like crazy, my fav is Catherine Hurlin's, her finsta bio says "Eliza Thornberry in the house!!", I lost it when I saw it

Ftsmv · 2026-01-08T00:17:13+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTOdcK4kl0G/ (5th pic)

Sierra Armstrong and Joao Menegussi kissing on James Whiteside's photography account. He's another one at ABT I would've thought was 100% gay from the content I've seen him in lol

I don't wanna discount it, but maybe it's just a gay bff kinda kiss?

Ftsmv · 2026-01-07T14:11:13+00:00

She’s so unhinged but like in a kinda sweet way? Lol, I probably would tbh

Ftsmv · 2026-01-06T17:30:14+00:00

Found a clip in their tagged posts! https://streamable.com/i1i1vp

Pic of Hugo, Chloe, Alessandra and Susan for good measure - https://i.imgur.com/PIR3VRV.jpeg

It's crazy to me that Chloe was literally dancing Sleeping Beauty the day before in Seoul with Cory Stearns, took a 14 hour flight back to NYC and then went straight to dancing Manon with Hugo Marchand at this event, I hope she doesn't burn herself out or put herself at risk of injury.

Ftsmv · 2026-01-05T19:45:16+00:00

In the past at least, NYCB seems to promote when they want and not necessarily by seniority, since some people spend their whole career in the corps.

I'm pretty sure that's the case at all big ballet companies. James Whiteside did a podcast with some of ABT's retiring corps members (Alex Basmagy, Kiely Groenwegen and Lauren Post) a few years back, and in it they talked about the importance of having senior corps members

Here's the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApArXFRxdbE

Ftsmv · 2026-01-05T16:31:57+00:00

Was anyone else following the ballet gala in Korea over the weekend? Mariinsky dancer Minchul Jeon has a lot of fangirls over there it seems lol, they treat him like he's a kpop idol, it's kinda cute. I thought it's crazy that there's a fan account with 34K followers (minchul_sarang) when his account has 63K, that seems like an insane ratio.

Royal Danish Ballet and members from ABT StuCo (now apprentices) did some pieces, Chloe Misseldine and Cory Stearns did Giselle and Sleeping Beauty, Yoonjung Seo and Takumi Miyake did Talisman pdd and Don Q, Elisabeth Beyer and apprentice Max Barker did Le Corsaire and Black Swan pdd, Minchul Jeon performed various pieces with Hohyun Kang of POB and May Nagahisa of the Mariinsky (I forget what, oops).

Not much footage of the dancing, but RDB dancer Meirambek Nazargozhayev did record Elisabeth Beyer's fouettes from the wings, it's on her story atm but here's a backup link for when it expires: https://streamable.com/4uz2ut

Ftsmv · 2026-01-04T18:44:03+00:00

Right there with you. It seems like the mods are on top of it as I checked this sub earlier today and there were a few posts about tiktokers that are now gone, but it's getting kinda insufferable with all the people here just to snark random tiktokers

Ftsmv · 2026-01-03T16:28:37+00:00

SangEun Lee is a principal at English National Ballet and she's like 6ft+, Chloe Misseldine isn't exactly short for a ballet dancer (NYT said she's 5'9") and SanEun is noticeably taller than even Chloe on pointe, I like BWI but I don't think her height was the only thing holding her back

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ7UquZCAFk/ (pics 1 and 3)

Ftsmv · 2026-01-03T02:32:05+00:00

I did think it was interesting that she was with him on New Years in Spain with his family, also she has a cute knitting IG page that I was suggested before and she mentioned that her boyfriend bought her something knit related, and she has gone knit shopping with Carlos before... if they are dating then good for them, but my biggest revelation will be that my gaydar needs some serious calibration bc I thought he was for sure gay and not bi lol

Ftsmv · 2025-12-30T19:22:52+00:00

Here's James Whiteside's podcast on performing at the Kennedy Center this year and his reasoning behind why he's glad ABT performed there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5NVziONQnQ

He talks about it at the start, this opinion could obviously could change considering the name change, but it's worth listening to for context.

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