"No amateur hobby, ballet dancing is a hard, steady, painstaking job, requiring five years of training in the prime of youth to attain a properly professional degree of skill" - LIFE Magazine, December 28, 1935 - from a a story on The American Ballet. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE

"No amateur hobby, ballet dancing is a hard, steady, painstaking job, requiring five years of training in the prime of youth to attain a properly professional degree of skill" - LIFE Magazine, December 28, 1935 - from a a story on The American Ballet. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE

December 29, 2014 at 08:52PM