My favorite WTF moment from the year my daughter was at a russian studio was when the directors told a group of young middle schoolers that they needed to gain weight but only in the right places. . . .

The exploitation on some levels is worse than it was before. The promises of a ballet career pushing parents to pull their kids out of school as young as eleven so they can train 20-30 hours a week. Companies for the most part aren’t hiring eighteen year olds anymore so the dancers fight for “trainee” positions where…