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ELENA BORODINA
One of the greatest female hand-balancers of her generation, Elena Vyacheslavovna Borodina was born July 23, 1973, in Moscow, Russia, in a well-to-do family of scientists: Her father was a geologist, and her mother, a nuclear physicist. But as a child, Elena had ambitions of a very different order: She wanted to be a ballet dancer and, at a very young age, she began to take ballet lessons. When she was nine, the required age to enter the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (better known as the Moscow Ballet School), Elena presented her candidature to the prestigious academy—the talent source of the Bolshoi Ballet. But she was then under medical treatment for a minor ailment, and that was enough for the Academy to refuse her application. Applicants had to be nine years old, not eight, nor ten: It was a one-shot-only opportunity, and young Elena was devastated... (more...)
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