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US teen pursues ballerina dream at Russia's Bolshoi academy by Associated Press

MOSCOW " Among the dozen 15-year-old girls in lavender leotards in Tatyana Galtseva's class at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, one is different. And it's not just because of her long, swan-like neck.She is Harper Ortlieb, an American, who left her small town in Oregon to move to Moscow to follow her dream of becoming a prima ballerina.The prestigious academy has 84 foreigners among its 721 students, but few are accepted…

SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:12PM on March 13, 2016

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