A brief historical excursus: classical dance, and ballet as we know it today, were born in the classrooms of the Académie and from here slowly began to codify, then finding the period of maximum splendor in the years of Romanticism. A centuries-old story that tells how, despite the passing of the centuries, even today the physical requirements and skills for dancing go under an endless list of physical characteristics, including elasticity, instep conformation, joint mobility, coordination and flexibility.  Those who want to pursue a professional career have to face the harsh reality and only a few succeed, because it is often not easy to take note of how sacrifices and patience are not enough to compensate for the lack of physical requirements. In the classic, physical gifts and quality of movement come first, then technique and expressiveness. A theme, that of the body, that is very close to Christelle’s heart because, she tells us, the dancer’s physique must be almost compact, linear. The key word is harmony, even if this does not always pass through the acceptance of one’s physicality. All those characteristics of the genre are banned, such as generous breasts and round buttocks, which are instead enhanced in male dancers, where virility rhymes with muscles, broad shoulders, powerful chest.