According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest ballet class involved 989 participants in an event organized by Andrew Warth in Canal Walk Shopping Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, on August 24, 2008.

The bodices of the dresses worn by the women during the Hot Chocolate dace in the New York City Ballet’s rendition of The Nutcracker, are decorated with small cameo pictures of the company’s founders, Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine.

The giant Christmas tree in The New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker grows to a full height of 41 feet, weighing in at 1 ton.

The New York City Ballet usually presents around 50 performances of The Nutcracker Ballet each year. Approximately 50 pounds of paper confetti falls onto the stage to create the snowstorm.

A prima ballerina can complete 32 fouette turns, while staying in the exact same spot on the floor. After performing the turns, the tip of her pointe shoe will be hot to the touch!

Pointe shoes add a minimum of seven inches of new height to a dancer.

A three-hour ballet performance is roughly equivalent to two 90-minute Asoccer games back to back or running 18 miles.

The seven fairies who dance in the prologue of Sleeping Beauty are: The Lilac Fairy, the Fairy of the Crystal Fountain, the Fairy of the Enchanted Garden, the Fairy of the Woodland Glades, the Fairy of the Songbirds, the Fairy of the Golden Vine and Carabosse.

The seven movements of dance are: Bending, Gliding, Turning, Stretching, Jumping, Rising and Darting.

A Physiotherapist is a doctor who’s specialty is to treat dancer’s injuries.