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Russia's Fat Ballet

Published April 9, 2001 at 11:00 PM CDT

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NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on a recent performance by an unusual ballet troupe from the Siberian city of Perm. The company, calling itself the Fat Ballet, features hefty ballerinas weighing, on average, 200 pounds.