LOADING ERROR LOADINGTimothée Chalamet couldn’t have hit a lower note among his artistic peers last week. Variety/CNN“He seems to think that art is only valuable if it can produce money and fame for the artist, and that’s just not how art works. The value of art is intrinsic to the art itself, not how much money or fame it can get you,” New York City-based dancer Stefanie Renee Salyers, who spent years studying as a ballet dancer before entering dance theater, told HuffPost. Advertisement“Like in Russia, everyone goes to see a ballet and the ballerinas in Russia are as famous as Timothee Chalamet,” she said. Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified Tamara Rojo as a current lead principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet.

Source: Huffington Post March 15, 2026 00:09 UTC