"Everything was against Marie-Agnes Gillot becoming a ballerina - never mind a great one. She was too tall, broad-shouldered and most of all, she had a double scoliosis, which sometimes gives her a hump when her back is swollen. ... The last great French ballerina of her generation, she hid her problem from her teachers after leaving home at nine to go to ballet's elite school in the French capital."
Article source here:Arts Journal
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