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MOVEMENT CLASSES

MOVEMENT CLASSES Eight-year-old Isabella Parks admits she’s a bit of a dancing queen. “I wake up at 6 a.m. dancing,” said the second grader of her junior ballet dance class at the VanCura Ballet Conservatory. While Isabella already is learning the vocabulary of ballet, other students at the studio in the John A. Patten Recreation Center are just mastering the basics of creative movement.