11.   The dancers take class in knee-length tutus and perform in the gold costumes that set off the blue of the Maryinsky theater.

12.   The moves she has invented are closer to those of a welder working on the beams of a skyscraper than to the steps a dancer takes in the studio.

13.   Young folklorico dancers took the stage.

14.   They say line dancers take up too much room on the dancefloor, and are increasingly choreographing their steps to the sound of pop music.