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Ballet's approach to weight is an ugly tragedy by Sarah Wilkinson

Hopefully, this new documentary exposing Russian ballet's size zero culture will put dancers' plight in the spotlightThe Kirov Ballet, where one of the documentary's subjects now dances, perform Swan LakeAccording to David Kinsella, the director of a groundbreaking new documentary, A Beautiful Tragedy, if I wanted to be ballet dancer in Russia, I should weigh 39kg (6 stone, 1lb). I am 5ft 5in. This would give me a cl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24am on December 4, 2017

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