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It’s January 2, 2018, years after I left the world of dance. Glancing at my newsfeed, I see a headline that Peter Martins has resigned as the director of New York City Ballet in the wake of multiple abuse allegations. Dancers who worked with Martins celebrate the news, while others mourn his departure. Many observe that, for those of us who are or have been citizens in the world of ballet, many of the behaviors Martins engaged in were incredibly common.

Much of my life has been wrapped up in ballet. I grew up devoted to dance, and it wasn’t until a fall injured my back in my mid-twenties that I began considering an alternative career. Even now, a PhD candidate in history, I think about dance every day while I write my dissertation on Cold War dance diplomacy tours. When I heard about Martins’ resignation, I was in the middle of working on the January edition of The Activist History Review, “From Weinstein to Moore: Sexual Predation in American Culture.” Thinking that sexual abuse in dance could have been a meaningful addition, I realized that, in fact, this is something I should be talking about. But such incidents are not part of the stories dancers tend to tell about dance or about themselves. And ballet’s long history of silence regarding these harmful practices mean

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The fall has come not a moment too soon, some might say.

Peter Martins stepped down as Ballet Master in Chief at New York City Ballet last week after allegations of sexual harassment and the verbal and physical abuse of company members, reported the New York Times. This is not the first time he has come under public scrutiny. There was the alleged wife beating incident some years ago, but Martins’ wife, former NYCB principal ballerina Darci Kistler, dropped the charges the next day. And Martins pled guilty to a DUI in 2011. Now it seems more than one person who danced for him has a bone to pick with him.

Several weeks ago after the public sullying of movie producer Harvey Weinstein, the moguls started falling like dominoes. Why, I wondered aloud to a colleague, had the earlier shaming of Bill Cosby not started the same cascade of high-profile evictions in the entertainment industry? What was special about Weinstein? Or has the cultural climate shifted just enough in the intervening couple of years that fewer people are afraid to come forward with their stories? After the Weinstein story broke, scarcely a day passed without some other firing or forced resignation of big names across industries. Funny thing, I told my colleague, that kind of thing happens in th