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Mar 14, 2019 · Nora Monsecour is a transgender dancer who starred as Lara, a trans girl who wants to be a ballet dancer, in the film Girl. She shares her story, her challenges, and her achievements in ballet and film. She also talks about the film's controversies and her book project.
Nora Monsecour. Contemporary. Nora started dancing at the age of four, training professionally in ballet when she was nine. The passion and aim to become a dancer grew when she started training...
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Mar 15, 2019 · Out today, Girl has been called ‘‘the most dangerous movie about a trans character in years” – but director Lukas Dhont and dancer Nora Monsecour, who inspired the film, disagree. Here, they share their views on the controversy. March 15, 2019. Text Thomas Adam Curry.
The film was inspired by Nora Monsecour, a professional dancer and trans woman from Belgium. In 2009, Dhont, then 18 and a newly enrolled film student, read a newspaper article about Monsecour's request to her ballet school that she take the girls' class so she could learn en pointe skills.
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Dec 19, 2018 · But for Nora Monsecour, whose real-life story provided the basis of “Girl,” Whitney’s opinion was painful to hear. “I was really offended, because people made out that Lukas [Dhont] made a film...
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Interview with trans twins Arno and Nora Monsecour: born identical boys, now brother and sister. Arno is a professional footballer, Nora is a top dancer – and an award-winning film inspired...
Dec 7, 2018 · Nora Monsecour, whose real-life story inspired Lukas Dhont's 'Girl,' a film about a young transgender woman, describes her hopes for the picture, Belgium's foreign-language Oscar submission. By...