NEW HEIGHTS.

People talk about what they call the perfect ballet body--long legs, long neck, high arches, pretty face--but most of history's great classical dancers haven't shown up with such an endowment. Vaslav Nijinsky, in the words of one of his colleagues, looked like a "factory worker." Margot Fonteyn had feet that her primary choreographer, Frederick Ashton, compared to pats of butter. Part of the pleasure of watching these people was seeing them overcome such handicaps. Nevertheless, for men, at least, there is one physical characteristic that does pose serious difficulties, and that is short stature. The first problem here is finding the man a partner. A female dancer, if she ...