Kaitlyn Ezell, a dancer with the Albano Ballet Company of Hartford, leaps across the stage as part of a Strauss waltz during a series of dance vignettes for a lesson the "the language of movement" to students at Harbor School in New London Monday, March 27, 2017. Joseph Albano, the company's founder and artistic director, narrated the lesson looking at various forms of dance. Albano, a New London native and founder of the Hartford Ballet, travels the state with his company presenting this program to schools six to eight times a year with sponsorship from Mohegan Sun. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Students at Harbor School come forward to hug and high-five dancers with the Albano Ballet Company of Hartford, from left Amanda Bogdon, Kaitlyn Ezell, Carlos Laboy, Mark Mancini and Rachel Buder after they performed a series of dance vignettes for a lesson the "the language of movement" to students at Harbor School in New London Monday, March 27, 2017. Joseph Albano, the company's founder and artistic director, narrated the lesson looking at various forms of dance. Albano, a New London native and founder of the Hartford Ballet, travels the state with his company presenting this program to schools six to eight times a year with sponsorship from Mohegan Sun. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Kaitlny Ezell, left, greets students at Harbor School after the dancers with the Albano Ballet Company of Hartford performed a series of dance vignettes for a lesson the "the language of movement" to students at Harbor School in New London Monday, March 27, 2017. Joseph Albano, the company's founder and artistic director, narrated the lesson looking at various forms of dance. Albano, a New London native and founder of the Hartford Ballet, travels the state with his company presenting this program to schools six to eight times a year with sponsorship from Mohegan Sun. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Dancers with the Albano Ballet Company of Hartford take their curtain call after dancing to Gershwin's "An American in Paris" as part of a series of dance vignettes for a lesson the "the language of movement" to students at Harbor School in New London Monday, March 27, 2017. Joseph Albano, the company's founder and artistic director, narrated the lesson looking at various forms of dance. Albano, a New London native and founder of the Hartford Ballet, travels the state with his company presenting this program to schools six to eight times a year with sponsorship from Mohegan Sun. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Arielle Solomon, a dancer with the Albano Ballet Company of Hartford, warms-up backstage before the company presents a series of dance vignettes for a lesson the "the language of movement" to students at Harbor School in New London Monday, March 27, 2017. Joseph Albano, the company's founder and artistic director, narrated the lesson looking at various forms of dance. Albano, a New London native and founder of the Hartford Ballet, travels the state with his company presenting this program to schools six to eight times a year with sponsorship from Mohegan Sun. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Dancers with the Albano Ballet Company of Hartford Rachel Buder, right, and Kaitlyn Ezell, stretch backstage before presenting a series of dance vignettes for a lesson the "the language of movement" to students at Harbor School in New London Monday, March 27, 2017. Joseph Albano, the company's founder and artistic director, narrated the lesson looking at various forms of dance. Albano, a New London native and founder of the Hartford Ballet, travels the state with his company presenting this program to schools six to eight times a year with sponsorship from Mohegan Sun. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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