Parallel Worlds: Arts and Sciences

Desgraciadamente, este año no traemos buenas noticias respecto al cine español, ya que este 2013 se va a convertir en el año con menos espectadores en la historia del cine en España: “Ya podemos confirmar que 2013 igualará o superará por muy poco el año que menos espectadores fueron al cine en nuestro país , que fue en el año 1988 donde sólo acudieron a las salas 69,6 millones de aficionados al cine. La verdad es que el cine en nuestro país lleva perdiendo público desde hace décadas. Si, por ejemplo, en el año 1968 los españoles iban al cine de media 11 veces al año, ahora van dos veces. En 1968, fueron al cine 376,6 millones de espectadores, pero a partir de aquí las cifras fueron cayendo dramáticamente: 255 millones de espectadores en el año 1975, 176 millones en el año 1980, 101 millones en el año 1985, 69,6 millones en el año 1988, fecha en la que se volvió a crecer gracias al nacimiento de los cines en los centros comerciales. Sin embargo, pasados los 90´, el público volv

Nowadays, the ballet world is becoming more and more popular, and its international stars are becoming brands and public figures: “A wave of international ballet stars are increasingly leaping from company to company, creating their own brands and becoming more like world-traveling conductors and opera stars. In doing so, they are upending ballet’s traditional professional path and changing an art form long defined by national styles that dancers perfected as they grew up with — and stayed loyal to — a single company. “The talented people belong not to one company, but to the dance world,” the Russian ballerina Natalia Osipova said in a recent Skype interview. “In opera, this happens already. You have a chorus, but principals from all over the world.” Ms. Osipova, 27, is a prime example. On Thursday, she is to dance her first Juliet as a member of Britain’s Royal Ballet, the fourth dance troupe she has joined in two years. Her crowd-pulling virtuosity and charisma have taken

This is just a list of curiosities within the ballet world: 45 the percentage of professional ballet dancers who are smokers 110 lb. (7 stone 12 pounds): the weight reached by prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova that led to her firing from the Bolshoi Ballet 12 the age at which most girls are considered old enough to go on pointe 4350 the number of students at the Cuban National Ballet School in Havana, the biggest ballet school in the world 80 per cent: the injury rate among professional dancers in Britain 100 kg/15 stone: the minimum weight requirement for ballerinas in the Big Ballet, a Russian dance company 3 The pain threshold of ballerinas is 3 times higher than that of non-ballerinas 7 Ballet dancers are 7 times more likely to suffer from anorexia than non-ballerinas 22,000 the annual wage, in pounds, of second year corps de ballet dancers at the Royal Ballet 29 average retirement age of professional ballerinas in the 1990s 40 aver