Berlin State Ballet's first black dancer Chloe
Lopes Gomes said she has been made to feel different because of her skin
colour since she first donned ballet shoes as a child.
Dancers at Berlin's Staatsballett are challenging the appointment of choreographer Sasha Waltz as one of the company's new directors, rejecting the appointment as "insulting" and politically-tinged.
A portly pensioner weighing 125 kilos took his sports club to court after he injured himself when the ballet barre he was practicing on collapsed under his weight.
