"To dance well, you have to be self-centered and focused on yourself," says Vanessa Zahorian, 32, a dancer in the San Francisco Ballet since 1997. Since childhood in rural Pennsylvania, dancing has ...

In the interest of time, we're gonna be focusing on turns. The fouette sequence in Swan Lake. of being a principal ballerina. As a disclaimer, this is my interpretation of complexity. Level one, plie.

Tracy Somani and her classmates exercise toe extensions in a Philadelphia Ballet class for adults who have never danced ballet before. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...