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When you go professional, the same diet and weight restrictions were applied to students aged from 10 up to 22. Women over 50 kilos were not allowed to dance with partners. Without change, the art form will die.
How ballet helped us beat the blues: When author ERIN KELLY suffered a breakdown in lockdown, taking up ballet at home was her salvation. And she's not alone - with scores of stressed midlife women learning how to dance their troubles away Author Erin Kelly took up ballet after a breakdown during the first lockdown Scores of stressed midlife women have turned to ballet to dance troubles away There has been a tenfold rise in the number of online dancers since pandemic
How ballet helped us beat the blues Erin Kelly For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The swell of a Tchaikovsky piano score fills the room as I take position and Russian ballerina Maria Khoreva purrs her instructions. ‘Front, back, front, back. Plié, tendu, plié, tendu.’ My calves burn as I rise on to my toes, my arms are still jelly from yesterday’s class, and when I sink into a bend, my thighs ache in long-forgotten places. Sadly, I’m not in a tutu on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre. I’m a 44-year-old woman standing in my kitchen in North Lo...