"Today, if you ask any star of the traditional ballet how many really good ballet dancers there are in America, they will answer: 'Four. The other three are...' They seldom agree on the matter of the three. But the name that appears on most lists, including her own, is Mia Slavenska (1916 – 2002)."
"There are three main rules for becoming a ballerina of note: Your folks must be nuts about ballet; you mustn't start to learn before you're about eight or nine and you mustn't be a child prodigy. Mia Slavenska broke all three of them. Her folks didn't care two cents worth about ballet; she started when she was three and she was a child prodigy for a decade.
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