La Scala's eating-disorder dancer loses her case and her job

www.gramilano.com: 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.