Why do ballet dancers always have a pained look on their faces?

Ideally, a ballet dancer smiles, and looks ethereal. It’s all part of the illusion that she weighs nothing and is elegantly gliding across the stage.
In reality, she’s working her ass off up there. It takes an enormous amount of effort to look effortless. It’s actually even harder than it looks: it requires very unnatural movements to look as though gravity doesn’t affect you.
The smile is part of that. It’s a lot like the makeup. It’s designed to read well from a distance, but looks weird and forced up close. It looks like they’re faking it, which they are. TV puts them right in front of you, which really isn’t the intended view. They’re really aiming for people in the good seats, somewhere in the middle of the orchestra or the balconies.
You see the same forced smile on gymnasts and figure skaters:
That smile is taught: it’s what reads well to the judges. Ideally, you make it a real Duchenne smile, but you try that with the vast effort and pain you’re going through. The best of the best can do that. The rest are hoping that, as my favorite costumer puts it, “distance is your friend”.

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