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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

The economists at Freakonomics pose an interesting question this week:

Over the past half-century, ballet dancers who perform Sleeping Beauty at London’s Royal Opera House have been raising their legs higher and higher. So why, over the same time period, have professional basketball players not improved their free-throw shooting?

The question* supposes that a raised leg [...]

A first position account of ballet: the ups, downs and all classes in between. As an old instructor once said, “This is going to be very, very hard because ballet needs to be very very perfect.”