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Let's talk about the men and fathers of boys who challenge their gender stereotype - do they support their child or do they try to make them conform to the stereotype? On our Facebook page, only 20% of our followers are male. Most of our posts are engaged by women, most people taking part in our #Myboycandance campaign are mothers and Most of your posts, comments and messages are from females. Does this mean that men find it hard to join the discussions of our sons who dance,

Why do we always justify our sons decision to dance with statements of stereotypical masculinity I am currently at an unrest with myself and even this post has been a tough one to write. As some of you would have seen, I shared an image of Arnold Swarzeneger training in ballet to this page and the most brilliant Scott Gormley commented: "As a father of a male dancer and the producer/director of Danseur I am concerned by posts that try to prove it’s ok to dance by using these

A discussion into why our sons feel that ballet is for girls and what needs to change "No mum, I don't want to dance anymore. It's for girls" Boy aged 4 years old. How do I argue with this statement? I personally can until I'm blue in the face, because I believe that dance is for everyone and as an adult, I don't worry so much what others think anymore. But to my small child. A dance lesson for him is a room full of girls in their pink leotards and tutus and pink ballet slipp

Wow what a response to our amazing campaign! The most wonderful part about the #Myboycandance movement is the amount of people who have taken part AND from around the world!! It's been just brilliant to be able to sit here with my son and show him all the different dancers, discuss the different styles of dance that there are, the amazing different costumes that people are wearing and all the different ages these boys are. It's become our evening thing now, to catch up on My