Italian ballerina Carla Fracci turned 80 years old on August 20, but she hasn't hung up her pointe shoes yet. She performed in late July at the Versiliana Festival with the Balletto del Sud in Fredy Franzutti's staging of "Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights" as Queen Thalassa, the queen of the sea. 

"I've never loved celebrating my birthdays, and this year it will be the same: I'll be with my family, with my grandchildren," she said, acknowledging however that reaching age 80 is a "significant milestone".
She's never been one to slow down her career for life's demands - when she was pregnant with her son Francesco she danced up until her fourth month of pregnancy. Although she admits to having some regrets, among which figure never having been a director of the La Scala ballet company, they're overshadowed by innumerable successes on the world's most prestigious stages.

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