Ballet to Broadway...and back?

From: Pointe | Date: February 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The bright lights of Broadway lure

a new generation of classical dancers.

Ashley Tuttle evokes the wilis of Giselle onstage. Dealing ith death and cloaked in a black veil, she executes a difficult pointe work section. But she isn't onstage with American Ballet Theatre, and she is 't dancing to music by Adolphe Adam. No, she's performing a section of Movin' Out, the new show on Broadway, and she s gliding across the stage to a song by Billy Joel.

And Tuttle's not the only one. With shows like The Lion King, Oklahoma! and Movin'Out attracting dance fans in New York City's theater district ...

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