Dancers Move to Music

Dancers executed leaps and moved elegantly to the sound of live piano at Boston Ballet.

School Principal Evelyn Cisneros-Legate led the adult beginner class in their movements over the floor at the ballet school.

The school is located inside the Lynch van Otterloo YMCA, which serves Swampscott, Marblehead and Salem.

None of the dancers were beginners but several of them were returning to dance after many years away. For one dancer, the hiatus had been 20 years.

All of them said they were transported by the experience of ballet, a break from their daily routines and responsibilities.

As they waltzed, jumped and turned, pausing to form arabesques, pianist Delgir Chunaeva played sparkling classical numbers including those by Chopin and Tchaikovsky.