An amazing 20' documentary about the health follow-up of the Petits Rats de l'opéra: includes information about pointes work start age (12-13 y.o.) and physio caring, food intake education and surveillance, medical follow-up, physio, injuries etc.

www.france5.fr . . . (it start with an ad - the ballet subject starts around 40')

I don't know a lot of French, but I thought it would be fun to try to watch and understand. However, when I clicked on the link, I got the commercial, but nothing following it. I could not figure out a way to see the feature. C'est dommage...

Sorry for my late answer. I was away.

I've just checked. The video works for me. Maybe it's a regional thing? (access only from Europe? The video is French but I am in Belgium)

Do you know if it's possible to save such a video to youtube?

Thanks.

I'm glad you came back, because it reminded me to try again. Today I was able to view one part! This ended with all the Petits Rats singing and playing kazoos. The language was far beyond my capabilities, but it was fun to watch. Thank you for posting it!

I'm happy it worked.

If you have any question or part you are particularly interested in, please let me know (I speak French).

I tried the link and, after the commercial, got a message that I needed to install Microsoft's "Silverlight" plug-in. Since I was using Firefox, I decided to try Microsoft Explorer instead, guessing that my latest version already had Silverlight. That worked! There are actually 5 installments in this series. Type "Petits rats de l’opéra" into the search box (Rechercher) to find them all.