MAC
09-16-2003, 05:47 PM
Russian Ballerina Too Big a Star for the Bolshoi (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20030916/od_nm/odd_russia_ballerina_dc)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's Bolshoi Theater sacked an ice-cream-loving prima ballerina Tuesday, saying she was too heavy and too tall for most of her dance partners to lift.
Anastasia Volochkova, one of Russia's best-known ballerinas, has been publicly feuding with the theater over a new contract and the Bolshoi's claims she was too heavy to dance with.
"I think that now when people try to add 10 or 20 cm (4-8 inches) to my height, and talk about my measurements and dimensions, they should remember that height is not what makes a ballerina great," Volochkova told Russia's First Channel television.
A spokesman for Volochkova said she was 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 110 pounds.
Unlike most ballerinas, who are notorious for watching their weight, she has said she could not imagine life without ice cream. The Bolshoi, though, has decided it can imagine life without Volochkova.
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110# 5'7" ballerina is too big to lift?
sheut....she ain't to big to bitch slap
hmmmm
http://www.peoples.ru/art/theatre/ballet/volochkova/volochkova02.jpg
she's kinda pretty and graceful to be slapping around...I guess that's why I'm not a pimp
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's Bolshoi Theater sacked an ice-cream-loving prima ballerina Tuesday, saying she was too heavy and too tall for most of her dance partners to lift.
Anastasia Volochkova, one of Russia's best-known ballerinas, has been publicly feuding with the theater over a new contract and the Bolshoi's claims she was too heavy to dance with.
"I think that now when people try to add 10 or 20 cm (4-8 inches) to my height, and talk about my measurements and dimensions, they should remember that height is not what makes a ballerina great," Volochkova told Russia's First Channel television.
A spokesman for Volochkova said she was 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 110 pounds.
Unlike most ballerinas, who are notorious for watching their weight, she has said she could not imagine life without ice cream. The Bolshoi, though, has decided it can imagine life without Volochkova.
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110# 5'7" ballerina is too big to lift?
sheut....she ain't to big to bitch slap
hmmmm
http://www.peoples.ru/art/theatre/ballet/volochkova/volochkova02.jpg
she's kinda pretty and graceful to be slapping around...I guess that's why I'm not a pimp