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A group of adult dancers in practice clothes listen to a teacher give a correction. Four dancers watch in the background, while the male teacher points to his hip in correcting the female adult student. Another woman marks the exercise to his right.

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In a large, high-ceilinged dance studio with floor-to-ceiling windows, a group of adult ballet students stand behind their teacher as they all pose in tendu croisé devant. The teacher wears a black leotard, black workout pants, and dance sneakers, while her students wear various practice outfits and ballet slippers.

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A large group of adult ballet dancers wearing leotards in various colors and white practice tutus pose closely together with their left arm raised next to their ear, the elbow slightly bent and the palm facing out. Their right arms are bent at the waist, crossing in front of their bodies. Seven of the dancers kneel in the front row, while the others stand. An adult male dancer stands at the far left of the group, posing in a tendu with his left hand on his hip as he holds a foam roller on his right shoulder.

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Kathryn Morgan, wearing a long-sleeved green shirt, a black ballet skirt, and black tights, touches the back of an adult ballet student practicing at the barre to correct her form. The female dancer wears a pink leotard, patterned blue skirt and pink tights. She holds her left arm in second position as she does a degagé with her left leg and smiles. They are surrounded by other adult ballet students doing the same exercise at the barre in a large dance studio with white walls.

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Allison DeBona gently holds the leg and lower back of an adult female ballet student as she practices a développé devant in effacé in the center of a dance studio. DeBona wears a green tank top, ballet skirt, and leggings and ballet slippers and looks toward the student, who looks up toward her lifted right arm with a smile. The student wears a black leotard, long pink skirt, footless pink tights and ballet slippers. Behind them, other dancers stand along the studio's floor-to-ceiling windows and watch.

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McKenzie Van Oss crouches on pointe in a large white box, holding onto the wall with her right hand and holding a white guitar with her left. She wears a pink leotard and a white and gray plaid sport coat and her blond hair down.

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Four adult female dancers stand next to each other in front of a ballet barre and stand in sus-sous with their right foot in front. The dancer on the far left is barefoot, while the other three wear pointe shoes. they hold onto the barre behind them with both hands, crossing over each other's, and smile towards the camera. they wear various dance clothing, with two wearing practice tutus.

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Alexandra Langley an adult ballet student, performs the Snow scene from The Nutcracker, wearing a white knee-length tutu and a small tiara. She is shown from the waist up, dancing in front of a backdrop with large, snowy evergreen trees. Her arms are in fourth position while smiling out to the audience.

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