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Gotta say, though, that here in the states ballet schools will reject young girls because they're not built skinny enough, even though they can do the work. The case in point was a performing arts dance school in San Francisco -- a public school, so they had certain responsibilities that private schools don't have -- that rejected an eight-year-old because she didn't have the right body type for classical ballet -- they said. (She was big-built, not fat, and very athletic) Never mind that she was a skilled dancer, trained by her professional dancer mom and could do anything they asked of her -- and this wasn't a professional dance school anyway. Since it was a public school, the administration got slapped down and the girl was admitted.
Used to be a female ballet company around called Big Dance in which none of the dancers were under 200 pounds. Okay, there were certain things they couldn't do, and nobody was sure going to catch them. But they were very, very impressive.
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