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...While at SAB, Lane attended the Professional Children's School in New York, and always took academics very seriously. When she was offered a spot in both the Miami City Ballet and Harvard in the spring of her senior year, Lane's decision was relatively clear-cut. "I just never saw myself dancing professionally," she says. "If you go that route, it becomes your entire life, and there were just so many other things I wanted to do. I was even hesitant to defer for a year to dance, just because I wanted to be prepared academically...
...Lane and Weiss agree that the discipline of ballet prepped them for the intellectual rigors of the Harvard atmosphere, but the social differences between the environments proved more striking. According to Lane, "Because of the nature of a ballet company, you're around the same people every day. You're in kind of this strange world and it's really hard to get out of it because you're dancing all the time. That was the one thing I loved about Harvard—Every day I would meet someone different...
...Upon entering Harvard, Weiss experienced a difficult self-identity transition. "It's hard to figure out my identity now. I had to switch from ‘yeah, she does okay in school but she's really a ballet dancer' to ‘she does ballet for fun, but she's really on her way to Hist...
...Elizabeth Santoro '01, co-director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company, echoes the other dancers' sentiments on reshaping her social world. Although she spent several hours a day for six days a week at Boston Ballet School, Santoro never found herself characterized as a ‘ballerina' until she arrived at Harvard. "In high school, I didn't really advertise it. Of course, all my friends knew, but it's not like I walked around in a bun at school. That just wasn't cool...
...physical changes associated with decreased time in the ballet studio, the women remain conflicted about their more mature bodies. According to Weiss, "When I look in the mirror sometimes, I don't recognize that body as mine. I did quit ballet because I wanted a normal woman's life...