A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms whose past and present are shaped by gender racial and class inequitiesand a look inside the fight for its future Every day in dance studios all across America legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives instilling lessons about gender power bodies and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love fo