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Why do female ballet dancers have no breasts?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: All of the other four answers are wrong. It's not that training in ballet creates small-breasted dancers. It's that only smaller-breasted women can become professional ballet dancers. For one, as all the many large-breasted women who study ballet can tell you, bouncing breasts HURT. Secondly, it is unseemly for the art form to see bouncing breasts on stage performing ballet.

The more classical ballet companies prefer the dancers with the smallest breasts - AA to small B. The more modern dance a company might do, the more variation in chest sizes is allowed - up to a C. But those companies would need to allow for more variation in costuming as well, as the dancers with larger chest sizes would need to wear bras under their costumes, and the straps often show. Of course, the colors and styles are chosen to blend with the costumes, so most audience members don't pay attention to them.