If you stop by the Fountain Square Theatre every other Friday night, you'll find hordes of teens from Lebanon High and other area schools swinging, tapping and whirling to a bouncy beat more typical of Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington than YoungBloodZ. Today, swing dancing is popular in Indianapolis and nationwide -- for all age groups.

The recent creation of The Russian Ballet Academy of Indiana is a Cinderella story, with its tale of dancers overcoming adversity because of their devotion to dance. When Ballet Internationale-Indianapolis, a world-renowned ballet company, abruptly closed its doors last November due to financial hardship, it took its professional ballet school, the Clara R. Noyes Academy, down with it.