Statistics on Ballerinas???
Question by cggggh05: Statistics on Ballerinas???
Im looking for some stats on ballerinas and their lives. Something like how many have eating disorders and drug use and anything else about ballerinas in the professional world
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Answer by die_now_jerks
i don’t rely get your question but i am sure someone out there can help you better than i can sorry
Answer by janine_rs
Ballerinas lives cannot be summed up by tales or stats dealing with eating disorders or drug use. As Toni Bentley, who danced with NYCB, wrote in the L.A. Times, “[Gelsey Kirkland’s] book ‘Dancing on My Grave,’ which details her plastic surgery, starvation diets, drug abuse and unsatisfying sex with Mikhail Baryshnikov, has become a miserable manifesto for all those who wish to perceive ballet dancers as victims. This attitude is patronizing and uninformed. She does not speak for the ballet world at large and most certainly not for the experience of most of us in it.”
If you must research this topic, you could always do a search on “eating disorders” or “drug abuse” and “dancers.” However, you’d be much better off getting your information about dancers’ lives from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook. See links below.
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