1.   As a child, Ms. Berl was pushed by her parents to study the piano, but she also took ballet lessons and loved them.

2.   As a child Ms. Silverstone took ballet lessons and studied with a San Francisco acting troupe.

3.   At around the same age, though, Ms. Marin began ballet lessons at the Toulouse Conservatory and was soon plunged into a world of rules and rigor.

4.   Autumn Barns, hurrying to a ballet lesson in Manhattan, said she was wearing two pairs of long underwear.

5.   Born in Riga, Latvia, of a Russian father and a Polish mother, Mme. Chiriaeff grew up in Berlin, where she received her first ballet lessons.

6.   Both are vegetarian, both have taken ballet lessons since the age of four.

7.   Corson began Classical ballet lessons at Phoenix School of Ballet with his best friend, Joel Prouty.

8.   For a while she wanted to be a ballerina and took ballet lessons, David recalled.

9.   Girls are supposed to comb their hair, to wear dresses and party shoes, to actually like the color pink and to want to take ballet lessons.

10.   He bought a minivan, and ferried the three children to art classes, gymnastic practice, ballet lessons and soccer games.