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Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies by Sanjoy Roy

We've heard lots about Natalie Portman's travails as a fictional prima ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's film, but she's just the latest in a long line of doomed cinematic dancersWARNING: contains spoilersYesterday's G2 interviews on Darren Aronofsky's ballet film Black Swan made me think about how feature films have incorporated ballet into their stories. Most people will think immediately of musicals, which have a re…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AM on January 7, 2011

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