A vida de bailarina nao parece ser uma dança; o contrario, alias...

Acho que é um pouco mais difícil do que a vida de diplomata: nós, por exemplo, podemos passar a vida comendo, bebendo, praticando vários hábitos bons e maus, sem que alguém venha nos dizer que devemos emagrecer do contrário estaríamos fora da carreira. Basta fazer novos ternos, por exemplo, ou vestidos mais largos, segundo os casos.
Em todo caso, também dançamos, mas nosso minueto é outro...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida 

Ballerina Fired Over Anorexia Claims Huffington Post, 7/02/2012 Last December, Italian ballerina Mariafrancesca Garritano gave the British paper The Observer enough incendiary quotes about the eating habits at her prestigious ballet company to supply content for all the dailies in England, and in the process, get herself fired this past weekend. Garritano, who'd just written a book called "The Truth, Please, About Ballet," told the Observer reporter stories of fellow ballerinas who'd been rushed to the hospital to get food injected into their systems. She said she'd been teased with the names "Chinese dumpling" and "Mozzarella" by her instructors when she was a teenager, that she'd lost her period for a year between the ages of 16 to 17 when she dropped to just under 95 pounds, and blamed her current bouts of intestinal pain and bone fractures on the dieting that got her there. Garritano, now in her mid-30s, gave a count: seven in ten dancers at the La Scala Academy in Milan have had their menstrual cycles stop, one in five have anorexia, and many of her colleagues are now physically unable to have children.