I'm trying to decide which box at the Mariinsky Theatre (old stage) could be permanently allocated to an extremely respected and famous retired ballet dancer, who comes (usually by himself) to watch performances most nights. He's elderly, so something close to the stage where he can see better would be ideal. I don't want to give him the Tsar's box ( Read more... )

I have a male character who is 16 and dancing ballet at a pre-professional level. He has been dancing for 8 years in my timeline and he aspires to dance as a career. Thing is, I haven't personally taken a dance class since 1998, I've never taken a ballet class on the level I want to write about and I'm a woman. I'm hoping someone here can give me ( Read more... )

Hi! So I'm looking for an injury, most likely to the leg, that could be caused by a car accident and would fit the following ( Read more... )

Question: I understand that a professional ballerina typically retires at about thirty, but at what age would an amateur stop? And I know that en pointe dancing is the most difficult and physically damaging, so at what age might she stop doing that, even if she continued dancing? Any information on when an average ballet dancer might start/stop ( Read more... )

Hi! I have a character who is a student at the Royal Ballet School (England) in the 1960's. She's eleven, it's her first year. I am looking for information on what colors her uniform - both for dance and academic classes - would have been ( Read more... )

I'm writing a character in her late teens who's recently stopped serious ballet classes, and I want to make sure I get the ballet-related details right.

Setting: North America (Washington state, if it's relevant), near-future (some urban fantasy elements, but not much affecting daily life).

1) First of all, is it really true that "if you grow ( Read more... )

Modern-day setting, United States ( Read more... )

Where/When Paris 1875-ish
Search Terms "Life of a Ballerina", "Ballerina + 19th century Paris", "19th Century Paris", "Wages of a dancer + 1875" + "Paris Opera House + wages + history" and "memoirs of ballerinas + paris + 1875" (all with different arrangements of quotes ( Read more... )

Two questions of utterly diverging subjects ( Read more... )

I'm working on a story where my MC is a ballet dancer. She's built for powerful elegance rather than delicacy, is 5'11, and nineteen years old. This is a fantasy, and things are going on in her mind that are making her a little unstable. There's a scene where she's outside in the rain, walking around a track (as in, made of cinder). My ( Read more... )