Bolshoi ballerina fired over weight

Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater sacked an ice cream-loving prima ballerina Tuesday, saying she was too heavy and too tall for most of her dance partners to lift.

Anastasia Volochkova, one of Russia’s best-known ballerinas, weighs 110 pounds and is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, her spokesman said. Volochkova has been publicly feuding with the theater over a new contract and the Bolshoi’s claims that she was too heavy to dance with. Unlike most ballerinas, who are notorious for watching their weight, she has said she could not imagine life without ice cream.