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by Deirdre Kelly


  Jennie Schulman. “National Ballet of Canada,” Back Stage, October 30, 1998.

  Kimberly Glasco, “Why I Took A Stand: Performing Artists Need Protection from Arbitrary Action and Abuse of Authority, Says Dancer Kimberly Glasco,” Globe and Mail July 21, 2000, A11.

  Olga Sobolevskaya, “Anastasia Volochkova: A Perfect Scandal,” RIA Vesti 3 (October 2003). http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/09-10-2003/3866-volochkova-0/ (accessed November 2, 2011).

  “Weight of the Law Lifts Swan Lake Star Back to Starlight,” Adelaide Advertiser, November 28, 2003, 3.

  “Ballerina Fired for Nude Photos in Men’s Magazine,” Canadian Press–Broadcast Wire, October 8, 2010.

  Cynthia R. Fagen, “Naked Ballerina Exposes Boss,” New York Post, October 17, 2010, 18.

  Kelly, “Glasco Considers Legal Action.”

  Statistics Canada 2006 Census. Employment Income Statistics in Constant (2005) Dollars, Dancers. www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm (accessed March 8, 2012).

  U.S. Census Bureau, “Earnings by Detailed Occupation: 1999: United States: Females,” www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/earnings/call2usfemale.html (accessed March 8, 2012).

  In the Matter of an Arbitration: Kimberly Glasco and The National Ballet of Canada and Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, 27.

  In the Matter of an Arbitration, 23.

  Urjo Kareda, “The Black Swan,” Toronto Life, May 1999, 63–69.

  There would be five separate hearings in all, excluding the main case, which was not even heard: the majority dealt with Glasco’s bid for temporary reinstatement, with the National Ballet seeking to appeal, and were heard by a variety of judges plus an arbitrator, making the case, at times, hard to follow.

  Deirdre Kelly, “Is Glasco Really Too Old to Dance? Ballet Experts Divided Over Kudelka Decision,” Globe and Mail, December 24, 1998, D1.

  Deirdre Kelly, “Putting Primas in Their Place: The National Ballet of Canada’s Founder Says the Current Bitter Battle There Is a Typical Result of Many Dancers’ Blind Egos,” Globe and Mail, January 11, 1999, C1.

  Deirdre Kelly, “Ruined Reputation Ends Chances of Work: Lawyer,” Globe and Mail, May 11, 2000, A25.

  Interview with the author, December 12, 2011.

  Paul Bunner, Alberta Report, May 8, 2000.

  Kelly, “Putting Primas in Their Place,” C1.

  Deirdre Kelly, “Ballerinas Talk Back. Flexing Some Muscle: While Retirement Has Always Been Hotly Debated, More Dancers Are Refusing to Accept the Traditional Role as Passive Observers of Their Destiny,” Globe and Mail, December 31, 1998, D1.

  Kelly, “Ballerinas Talk Back,” D1.

  Justice Winkler to stop the members’ meeting; 2. arbitrator Christopher Albertyn, who issued the order for reinstatement; 3. Justice O’Leary, who heard the application for a stay; 4. Back to Albertyn, who upheld his original award; 5. Justice Swinton, who upheld the arbitration award.

  Deirdre Kelly and Michael Posner, “Glasco, National Ballet End Their Marathon Pas De Deux: Dancer Wins Substantial Cash Settlement But Would Rather Be Working,” Globe and Mail, July 21, 2000, A5.

  Glasco v. the National Ballet, agreed public statement. www.sgmlaw.com/en/about/notablecases/NotableCaseGlascovsNationalBalletofCanada.cf.

  Margaret Wente, “The Glasco Fiasco (Act XVII) In Which the National Ballet’s Belligerent Ballerina Triumphs in Court, But Loses Friends,” Globe and Mail, July 4, 2000, A15.

  Michael Crabb, “She’s No Diva: At 38 Andrea Boardman Was Told Her Days with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Were Over,” National Post, July 31, 2001, B01.

  Quoted in Kathleen McGuire, “When Words Hurt,” Dance Magazine, July 2011, http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/July-2011/When-Words-Hurt.

  Tom Kington, “One in Five Ballerinas at La Scala Is Anorexic, Leading Dancer Claims,” The Observer, December 4, 2011. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/04/ballerinas-la-scala-anorexic-claim.

  Quoted in Kington.

  “No Anorexia Emergency, La Scala Ballerinas Claim,” February 8, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-anorexia-emergency-la-scala-ballerinas.html.

  Quoted in “No Anorexia Emergency.”

  Bryan S. Turner and Steven Wainwright, “Corps de Ballet: The Case of the injured Ballet Dancer,” Sociology of Health & Illness 25, no. 4 (2003): 271–272.

  Chapter 6: Changes Afoot

  Interview with the author, November 29, 2011.

  Interview with the author, February 24, 2012.

  Interview with the author, December 5, 2011.

  Interview with the author, September 16, 2011.

  Alastair Macaulay, “Timeless Alchemy, Even When No One Is Dancing,” New York Times, November 28, 2010, 1.

  John Springer, “I’m Not Fat, Says Ballerina Faulted for ‘Too Many Sugarplums,’ ” December 13, 2010. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40639920/ns/today-today_people/t/im-not-fat-says-ballerina-faulted-too-many-sugarplums/#.T2eHNNWXs1.

  Interview with the author, November 30, 2011.

  Laura Rico, “Keeping Dancers on Their Toes: New Technique Allows MRIs of Ballet Dancers En Pointe, Aiding Injury Treatment and Prevention,” University of California, Irvine. www.uci.edu/features/2010/08/feature_ballet_100830.php.

  Rico, “Keeping Dancers.”

  Interview with the author, November 30, 2011.

  Sharon Verghis, “Best Foot Forward,” Sydney Morning Herald, December 14, 2002, 30.

  Australian Ballet, “Injury Management and Prevention Programme,” 1.

  Australian Ballet, 8.

  Email exchange with the author, December 22, 2011.

  Verghis, “Best Foot Forward.”

  Email exchange with the author, December 22, 2011.

  Interview with the author, November 26, 2011.

  Email exchange with the author, December 7, 2011.

  Interview with the author, October 2006.

  Interview with the author, February 24, 2012.

  Susan Walker. “Some Signs of Life After Dance; Their Bodies Pushed to the Brink, Dancers Seek Second Careers with Help of a Local Agency,” Toronto Star, January 31, 2008, E01.

  Deirdre Kelly, “Kain, Hart to Perform at Fundraiser for Dancers’ Centre: Budget Cuts Have Hurt the Dancer Transition Resource Centre, Founded a Decade Ago to Help Performers Make the Leap from Stage to Other Careers,” Globe and Mail, September 30, 1996, C4.

  Deirdre Kelly, “Kain, Hart to Perform.”

  Deirdre Kelly, “Av Paul Finds There Is Life After Dance: ‘By Facing the Fact of Retirement, It’s Somehow Been Less Difficult,’ ” Globe and Mail, May 11, 1985, E5.

  Interview with the author, February 24, 2012.

  William Littler, “Author’s Digging Proves There’s Life After Dance,” Toronto Star, August 1, 1987, E3.

  Littler, “Author’s Digging.”

  Jenny Jackson, “Amid Accolades, Our Dancers Starve,” Ottawa Citizen, January 15, 2005, G6.

  Interview with the author, December 6, 2011.

  Morley Walker, “A place in her Hart. Former RWB star has fond memories of Winnipeg but her life now is in Toronto,” Winnipeg Free Press, April 17, 2008, D1.

  Interviews with the author, October and November 2006.

  Janice Dineen, “Dancer Transition Centre: Finding Their Feet. As They Face Retirement, Dancers Get Help to Adjust to the Strange New World Outside the Theatre.” Toronto Star, September 1, 1990, F1.

  Deirdre Kelly, “Kain, Hart to Perform.”

  Dineen, “Dancer Transition Centre.”

  Dineen, “Dancer Transition Centre.”

  Interview with the author, December 9,2011.

  Interview with the author, February 24, 2012.


  Vicki Smith Paluch, “Motherhood Doesn’t Slow Down Ballerinas,” Los Angeles Daily News, April 24, 2005, U4.

  Linda H. Hamilton, J. Brooks-Gunn, and Michelle Warren, “Sociocultural Influences on Eating Disorders in Professional Ballet Dancers,” International Journal of Eating Disorders 4, no. 4 (1985): 474.

  Interview with the author, December 16, 2011.

  Sarah Kaufman. “Why’s Ballet Showing Up in Pop Music Videos?” Washington Post, April 10, 2011, E02.

  Interview with the author, December 16, 2011.

  Kaufman, “Why’s Ballet Showing Up?”

  Interview with the author, November 17, 2010.

  Interview with the author, September 22, 2011.

  Interview with the author, New York City, September 19, 2011.

  Epilogue

  Interview with the author, November 30, 2011.

  Quoted in Sibyl Kleiner, “Thinking with the Mind, Syncing with the Body: Ballet as Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Interaction,” Symbolic Interaction 32, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 254.

  Anne Summers, “On Begging to Be a Bridesmaid in a Ballerina Dress: Some Meanings of British Fashion in the 1950s,” History Workshop Journal 44 (Autumn 1997): 230–31.

  Evan Alderson, “Ballet as Ideology: ‘Giselle,’ Act II,” Dance Chronicle 10, no. 3 (1987): 292.

  Quoted in Alderson, 302 (in a footnote citing a review by Debra Cash of Suzanne Gordon’s book, Off Balance: The Real World of Ballet).

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