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...Weiss would take several adult classes at Manhattan's famous Steps studio. "The classes were open to the public," she explains. "So it was basically like 40-year old women and me!" Weiss chose a more conventional pre-professional path during the summers, attending programs at the San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet...
...seemed just as likely, however, that Weiss was on her way to an elite university. During her junior year, she managed to squeeze in four AP classes before her seven-hour jaunt into Manhattan for ballet rehearsal. Upon graduation, she was accepted by both Harvard and Yale, and chose to defer Yale's offer for one year...
...During that time, Weiss guest-performed with several companies in New York. Finally able to pay for her own pointe shoes, Anna's pirouettes caught the eye of American Ballet Theatre director Kevin McKenzie. "I was taking open classes in the evening at ABT," she says, "and I ended up getting along really well with the Ballet Mistress. She invited me to come take Company class in the morning. Kevin McKenzie would come in all the time and be like, ‘Who's that girl?', and that's how I ended up getting an audition." Networking holds...
...summer following her first audition at ABT, Weiss experienced a dramatic change in her professional dance aspirations. "I was getting over an injury," she recalls, "and sort of figuring out that ballet wasn't necessarily the world I wanted to be in. It was the ninth time I had been seriously injured—I'd had stress fractures, sprained ankles, bad knee problems that I knew I would be looking forward to during my career...
...another pre-professional ballerina, the decision to focus on college came sooner, and more definitively. Allison E. Lane '02, who originates from Oregon, studied at SAB during her junior and senior year of high school. As the official school of New York City Ballet, SAB generally increases a young dancer's chances of getting into a major company, but not without discrimination against students who desire a college education. "In the school I was at," Lane explains, "it was the type of thing where if they knew you were going to college, they might not consider you for a position...