“‘I never thought that they would find me interesting enough to be the one,’ said the villain of the first season of Breaking Pointe. ‘The first two episodes, the backlash I got on Twitter and Facebook – I just shut down. I couldn’t stop obsessing about what people were saying about me. I could barely watch it.'”
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‘Get Out Of My Sight’: The First Time Gerald Arpino Laid Eyes On Me
Former Joffrey star Adam Sklute, now artistic director of Utah’s Ballet West: “[He] screamed out to me from the front of the studio, saying, ‘You there. You, with the spatulas at the end of your legs. Get out of my sight.’ Some dancers might have been crushed, but I thought, ‘Gee, he noticed me,’ so I knew I was doing something right.”