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Article: Dancing `birds' get a workout.(Schools)(A pilot project takes ballet into elementary school classrooms)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2007
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Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard
SPRINGFIELD - With her lithe, muscular dancer's body, Hannah Bontrager made the "bird dance" look effortless, perching on one leg with arms outstretched before bounding across the Moffitt Elementary School gymnasium in simulated flight Tuesday afternoon.
But for many of the two-dozen fledglings following behind her, it wasn't so easy. They puffed and they panted, and a few were flushed by the time she let them rest.
"Are you working hard yet?" she asked the children, all of them second-graders in Nancy Wing's class at Moffitt. "Did you know real dancers do work very hard?"
For many of the ...