The ballet school at Vienna's State Opera stands accused of 'disregarding' the welfare of the children in their charge, according to a commission investigating the abuse.
The ballet school at Vienna's State Opera has been accused of endangering the well-being of its young students by encouraging them to smoke to stay thin, says a Austrian commission investigating the alleged abuse in a report released Tuesday.accused the school of inflicting abuse, both mental and physical, upon its students, including sexual assault. Reports of students being hit, scratched until bleeding, bullied over their bodies and having their hair pulled occurred.
"Many children have lost their dream to dance," Luisa Solowjowa, a former student at the academy, told thein a phone interview when the allegations broke in April. She said that her instructor had kicked her"like a football" at one point.investigation had"uncovered very unpleasant incidents, which are completely intolerable and which we regret greatly: Some individuals have behaved very badly.
The commission also confirmed that insufficient medical care was given to students, and that they were addressed by their first name and their clothing size. Training loads were also insufficiently controlled, said the report,"endangering their wellbeing." "It is clear that children and adolescents are not sufficiently protected from discrimination, neglect and negative medical effects," said the head of the commission, Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf toShe says that Dominique Meyer, the State Opera's director, failed to carry out his supervisory responsibilities.
Meyer called for a"full investigation" into the accusations when they broke in April. He is slated to leave the State Opera for a position with Italy's Scala in 2020 after working with the Vienna State Opera for a full decade.HANS PUNZ / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT/Getty
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