12/85Portion of the New York City Ballet’s annual ticket income derived from The Nutcracker: 1/4
4/85Pairs of toe shoes the New York City Ballet orders for principal dancer Suzanne Farrell each season: 350
11/92Price of an eight-week course in striptease at Moscow’s Taif School of Erotic Dance, in rubles: 3,000
6/92Percentage of Americans between the ages of 27 and 45 who had their first kiss at a school prom or dance: 15
8/92Number of extra dancers a Houston topless bar plans to hire during the Republican Convention this month: 20
6/93Price of golf, dinner, beer, and a “cart dance” by a topless female caddie at Fort Worth’s New Orleans Nights club: $620
1/00Estimated number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, according to the American Institute of Physics: 1064
3/01Amount owed creditors by the touring song-and-dance group Up with People when it went under last December: $7,300,000
12/05Days after Katrina hit that the first strip club was reopened in New Orleans: 20
Percentage of their income from “dollar dances” that its strippers are donating to relief efforts: 100
12/07Number of lap dancers whose tips and menstrual cycles were tracked by a recent University of New Mexico study: 18
Percentage by which a dancer’s tips during fertile days exceeded those during menstruation: 92
7/07Percentage of West Virginia public schools that will use the video game Dance Dance Revolution in P.E. classes next year: 100