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Mariafrancesca Garritano, a soloist with the La Scala Ballet Company, wrote a book in 2010 exposing the eating-disorders which afflict one in five dancers, she claimed. “La verità, vi prego, sulla danza!” (The Truth, Please, About Ballet) made international waves, and when The Observer newspaper picked up the story just before the glamorous opening of La Scala’s season on 7 December 2011, the company’s management had had enough, and fired Garritano, who writes under the name, Mary Garret.
This week it was announced that her appeal against La Scala’s action has been unsuccessful, with the courts upholding La Scala’s position in the case.
Garritano, who has not been dancing with the company since 2012, now finds herself, at 35, without a job, having started at La Scala’s Ballet Academy when she was 16.… [continue reading]
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