A challenge of the aesthetic/conceptual restraints of classical ballet has both personal and symbolic interests to me. My lifelong classical ballet training has stirred up some questions in my mind. These questions range from the relevance of the form itself to the physical hardships endured by ballet dancers in an attempt to create pure form, ethereal beauty and to give the impression of near weightlessness. Ballet attempts to defy earthly laws and instead presents a world of fantasy where youth perserveres. I come to these projects both as a critic of the medium and as a devotee of this form which I find endearing yet impossible and ever more lost in translation to today's audiences.