Each Wednesday, 58 girls from E.D. Nixon and T.S. Morris elementary schools learn to develop the very modern traits of self-esteem and self-control using an art form that is more than 500 years old -- classical ballet.

The girls are part of a program held at Loveless Academic Magnet Program through the Academy of Performing Arts and sponsored by Strategies to Elevate People, an organization made up of area missions that minister to residents in the inner city.

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