The protagonist of the new and successful Disney short is called Bianca. Her dream, like that of many other girls around the world, is to be a dancer. This isn’t unusual in itself, except Bianca is insecure about her body. Indeed, her figure isn’t like that of most ballet dancers. However, this doesn’t detract from the grace or technical abilities of her dance skills. Nevertheless, she does experience discomfort, doubts, and even the rejection of her own image. It shows us that, in a world that tries to convince us of the existence of ‘normative’ and ‘non-normative’ bodies’, it…
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