MOSCOW(Reuters) - Moscow's Bolshoy Theater sacked an ice-cream-loving prima ballerina Tuesday, saying she was too heavy and too tall for most of her dance partners to lift.

　　Anastasiya Voloch-kova, one of Russia's best-known ballerinas, has been publicly feuding with the theater over a new contract and the Bolshoy's claims she was too heavy to dance with. "I think that now when people try to add 10 or 20 cm to my height, and talk about my measurements and dimensions, they should remember that height is not what makes a ballerina great," Volochkova told Russia's First Channel television. A spokesman for Volochkova said she was 170 cm tall and weighed 50 kg.