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Dance En Pointe Analysis

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For those willing to befriend effort and hard work, great treasures are in store, but only those very few who push towards success will earn them. As a ballet dancer at age nine, I knew not of the hard work which lay ahead, for my heart was set on my treasure. After watching a company class early that Saturday morning, watching the luminous dancers show off their lines and glide across the floor on their toes, I knew what my mind desired. I wanted to be just like them; I craved the ability to dance en pointe. Being en pointe takes many months of preparation, blisters, calluses, and sweat, but nothing was going to pull me away from my treasure.

I began the first days of summer by stepping into the studio building confidently; ready to

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