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I only danced recreationally as a kid, yet I do know that age at dance comps divided like this:

Minis/Petites: under age 8

Juniors: 8-12

Teens-13-15

Seniors: 16-18

I think different comps have different age requirements/birthday cut offs.

Reminds me of when Vivi (and Justice sometimes) were used in Junior/Teen dances to bring the age down🤣

Plus Brooke having to bring in her birth certificate to prove that she was in the Teen category against Erika from CADC.

Ballet has gotten so technical, very polished, and the taller, skinnier dancers are highly picked nowadays to the point that certain dancers wouldn’t make it in the present day.

My picks on who wouldn’t be popular nowadays (based on height, type, etc)

ABT-I’m going to get flack for it, but if Misty joined the company nowadays as an apprentice, she would have tough competition.

Bolshoi-Nina Ananiashvili, Plisetskaya, Bessmertova.

NYCB-Kathryn Morgan. She even admitted that she doesn’t meet today’s technical standard.

Royals-Fonteyn.

Liszt-German, French, Italian but I don’t think he spoke Hungarian. He probably used German the most.

Mozart-polyglot. German, French and Italian were I think his most fluent. I think he could speak some English and some Spanish if I could recall.

Stravinsky-Russian and English, he immigrated to New York City and became a US citizen. I think there’s recordings of him speaking English. You can tell he wasn’t a native speaker but could carry a conversation and understand others in English.

Rachmaninoff-Russian and eventually English? (he moved to California his later years)

Tchaikovsky-Russian and French, I think he mostly spoke French but could still speak Russian. There’s a recording of him speaking Russian, so he didn’t loose his Russian entirely.

Chopin-Polish and French, mostly French though?

Dvorak-probably spoke English at some point because he settled in Iowa (essentially the middle of nowhere for anyone outside the US)

Handel-German and eventually English too?

The first Toy Story came out in 1995. Andy was 8 then in that movie, so he would’ve been born in 1987.
Let’s assume Molly is around 1 (born in 1994), Hannah (Sid’s sister) is 7 (born 1988), and Sid is 12 (born 1983). Seems okay to me, but:

Toy Story 2 came out in 1999. But Andy is 10 then. If he was born in 1987, he would’ve already been 12. Molly is 2, but she would’ve been 5 by 1999.

Toy Story 3 is where it gets infuriating. It came out in 2010. Andy is 18 here when he theoretically could be 23. Molly is around 10 in this movie, but if she was born in 1994, she would’ve been 16 by then and already thrown out Barbie.
Bonnie-assuming she’s 5 in 2010, she would’ve been born in 2005.
If Toy Story 3 takes place in the spring/summer of 2010, and Toy Story 4 takes place directly after 3, that means Bonnie would’ve started kindergarten in the 2010-11 school year.
But again, Bonnie didn’t want to play with Woody at the beginning of 4, so she could’ve been born in 2006 (4 in 2010, still attending preschool, but would’ve started kindergarten in 2011. Bonnie would’ve been 5 in the summer of 2011)

Bonnie is 8 in Toy Story 5. Theoretically, 5 could’ve taken place in 2014. iPad kids existed then and online multiplayer games that LilyPad had (eg Temple Run, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja) would’ve been really popular in that year. The only thing is that you couldn’t message people through the game (if I remember). But it was also possible to text friends on iMessage, hence the cyber bullying by the girls in her dance class.
But if Bonnie was born in 2006, she would’ve graduated high school by the time that Toy Story 5 came out.
I think Blaze might be 12-13 in Toy Story 5? If that makes sense, she would’ve been born in 2001 or 2002 if 5 takes place in 2014.
QR codes and drones did exist then but they weren’t ubiquitous like they are now. They were considered newer technology though.
The only anachronistic thing is the Zoom calls that Blaze’s dad is on. If they actually set 5 in 2014, Blaze’s dad would be on Skype, not Zoom
(Rip Skype. I heard that Zoom overtook Skype during the pandemic because it was more user friendly than Skype and also less prep)

For me:

Vishneva-Maria Bulanova

Lopatkina-Ilyushkina

Nina Kaptsova-Yaroslavna Kuprina?

Maria Kowroski-Mira, Miriam Miller?

Megan Fairchild-EVE

Alina Somova-Khoreva

Vasiliev-Dmitry Smilevsky

Cornejo-Roxander

Nureyev and Baryshnikov-Roman Mejia?

Osipova-Kokoreva or Anastasia Smirnova

Bouder-Indiana Woodward

Zakharova-Olga Smirnova and Eleanora Sevenard

Bolle-Jacopo Tissi

Novikova-Alexandra Khiteeva

Tereshkina-Yana Peneva and Renata Shakirova

Shkylarov-Alexei Orohovsky

In America, school nativities only happen if you go to a Christian or Catholic school, or it’s performed by kids who are a member of a church. Apparently school nativities are more common in the UK, which does make sense given that there’s an official state religion there.

Also, some of the characters in some of these nativities can be wild! It’s because parents want to see their precious child/children onstage, so the teachers have to be creative. It goes too far and they add random characters that don’t make sense (like the girl playing the lobster in Love Actually)

Random roles I’ve read about in school nativities: the Argentinian flag, a door holder, a bungalow, a cashier, a bush, a bauble, Spiderman