CURIOUS BALLET NUMBERS

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

100kg/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 average retirement age of professional ballerinas in the 1980s

    71 the age that Charin Yuthasastrkosol was when she won the Guinness World Record for oldest performing ballerina

(Telegraph, 2013)

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