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Ballerinas Weren’t Always Required to Be So Thin (So We Should Stop Demanding It Now)

DANCE Posted: February 21, 2014 12:35 am

Judith Mackrell: “A century ago, weight was never so contentious. While ballerinas were inclined to be more slender than the norm, … those dancers were not expected to be excessively thin. … It was in the mid-1920s that attitudes to dancers’ bodies shifted.”

DANCE Published: 02.20.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 02.20.14

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