La Clase de Balet: Tales from the Dancing Feet
This Tuesday, I will be teaching the Jiu Valley’s 4th ballet class! Little would I have imagined when training for years in the States that my abiding love for dance would eventually find expression in post-Communist Romania. I know many of you have been praying specifically for the little feet that would come to this hopeful ballet class, and have the little feet come indeed! I had 6 children my first class, 9 my second class, and 12 this past Tuesday! For Lupeni and the Jiu Valley, this is simply incredible. Because of the high levels of distrust and suspicion among these mothers, the increase of children every week has been an unfolding miracle. Most of you know that the possibility for this class arose when Brandi (Dana Bates' wife who partnered with him in founding New Horizons) realized I was a dancer and asked if I would be willing to teach her 4-year-old aspiring ballerina Briana and any other little Romanian girls who might be interested. Of course, I was completely astoni...
