The phrase "I love ballet" is anecdotal even among dancers. This is what we often hear from ballet school students when they are asked why they chose ballet training, and feel the oppressive gaze of their ballet teacher on them.

Four dancers and independent dance artists, who graduated from ballet school but abandoned ballet for other dance forms, take a fresh look at their ballet craft. They note what continues to attract them to the discipline, what repels them, what traces they see of their ballet training in their current bodies and lives. After 20 years since their adventure with classical ballet ended, Aleksandra Borys, Karolina Kraczkowska, Ramona Nagabczynska and Iza Szostak have achieved the critical distance needed to see the “text” of ballet. And as it turns out, this “text” is very rich. Both the ballet librettos and the narratives hidden behind the scenes can be analysed endlessly as conveyors of ideology.