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A young ballerina in a white tutu and crown stands backstage near the wings and looks down at her smartphone.

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A teenage ballet dancer is shown sitting on the floor from the waist up. She pulls her knees up to her chest and wraps her arms around them, and bites her fingernail nervously as she looks out the dance studio window. Behind her, two female dancers in black leotards and pink tights sit on the floor and talk.

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Michelle Martin, wearing a gray shirt and black pants, stands with her arms held low in front of her, wrists crossed, and her shoulders at a slight angle. She looks into a mirror (not shown) at two lines of female dancers behind her, who make the same pose while standing in B plus. The dancers wear various leotards and short skirts, pink tights and pointe shoes.

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Camila Rodrigues poses in a low attitude effacé on pointe outdoors at nighttime, grasping a chain-link fence with her right hand and stretching her left arm out low and behind her. She wears a white leotard and tutu, and pointe shoes, and looks over her right hand.

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Sophie Williams, wearing a purple leotard and long, lavender skirt, does a giant saut de chat out of the wings on stage right during a performance. She holds her arms in third arabesque and looks out towards the audience with a large smile.

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A teenage dancer in a red leotard and wearing the number 191 pinned to her torso does a développé à la seconde at the barrer with her arm in second position. Maurice Brandond Curry, wearing a black polo shirt and black pants, stands in front of her and points to her calf as he gives a acorrection. Other male and females dancers stand around them at the barres and watch.

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The Crucial Differences Between a Company and School Audition

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In this black and white photo, a balerina in a knee-length tutu stands at the bottom of a stairwell, holding onto the handrail and looking down at it. She stands in a pool of bright light under an archway, and in the background is another staircase perpendicular to the archway.

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