AFP通信のインスタグラム(afpphoto) - 11月24日 09時06分

AFP Photo ? @torbalancho - Moscow's ballet studios: where careers take flight - #ballet
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In a small studio in northern Moscow, girls as young as three in tutus and pointe shoes practise their ballet moves in front of a mirror.
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Lined up on their mats, the youngsters have no difficulty stretching their legs up over their heads -- let alone doing splits.
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The studio is one of dozens in the Russian capital, home to some of the world's best ballet troupes. Many are run by former professional ballerinas.
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Children and teenagers meet at the studio in a Soviet-era community centre three times a week for classical ballet classes.
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They are overwhelmingly girls, their long hair tied tightly in buns high on their heads.
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"We have boys, but unfortunately not many," the studio's director and former ballerina Oksana Mironova tells AFP. She proudly adds that one boy she taught is now a dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre.
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Mironova herself started out at a ballet school in Saratov, a city on the Volga river. She went on to train at a Saint Petersburg academy, where she was taught by Russia's legendary prima ballerina Natalia Dudinskaya.
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After a 10-year career in Moscow, she suffered a knee injury that stopped her from dancing, and opened a ballet studio in 2001.
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