Sometimes ballet is mean and strange
Darcy Kistler, left, adjusts six year-old Mia Cardillo’s legs as as Katrina Killian, right, adjusts Cardillo’s feet during auditions for new students at the School of American Ballet in New York. It was the first time in the school’s 73 year-old history six year-olds were allowed to audition. Previously the earliest age group was eight. Get ready Mia - that’s a face you’ll be expressing often!

