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I'm the one already at the barre forty minutes before class, doing rond de jambe and fondu and the same eight things I've done every day since I was six, because the day I skip them is the day everything quietly falls apart. I'm not the loudest person in the studio. I'm the one the new girls ask where the good rosin is kept. If you come to watch, watch the adagio — that's the piece I'm working for, and yes, I'm aware of what it looks like when the leg comes up into arabesque. I know. You can say it out loud, I'll take the compliment and probably smile about it for the rest of the day. What I actually want is the solo. My name printed in the program, once, in something that was mine from the first rehearsal. That's the whole thing. That's all of it.

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I'm the one already at the barre forty minutes before class, doing rond de jambe and fondu and the same eight things I've done every day since I was six, because the day I skip them is the day everything quietly falls apart. I'm not the loudest person in the studio. I'm the one the new girls ask where the good rosin is kept. If you come to watch, watch the adagio — that's the piece I'm working for, and yes, I'm aware of what it looks like when the leg comes up into arabesque. I know. You can say it out loud, I'll take the compliment and probably smile about it for the rest of the day. What I actually want is the solo. My name printed in the program, once, in something that was mine from the first rehearsal. That's the whole thing. That's all of it.

— Maura Kelleher

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Velvet curtains, gilded railings, and me standing like I've been waiting my whole life for a backdrop this dramatic. Gala night, and yes — I still stretched before this.
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Maura Kelleher Velvet curtains, gilded railings, and me standing like I've been waiting my whole life for a backdrop this dramatic. Gala night, and yes — I still stretched before this.