Fired ballerina loses lawsuit
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A top Russian ballerina, fired for being too heavy, lost a damages claim for $1 million against the chief of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater Thursday, Moscow media reported.
Prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, fired by the theater in September for being too bulky for her partners to lift, sought the damages from the Bolshoi’s general director, Anatoly Iksanov.
“The Basmanny court turned down the ballerina’s claim, considering that the published information was not damaging to her honor, professional reputation and dignity,” Interfax news agency quoted her lawyer, Lev Zubovsky, as saying.
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