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.
E ven though the U.S. teen pregnancy rate has dropped in the past decade, more than 2,700 teenage girls still get pregnant every day, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization specializing in reproductive health research. The PEERS Project hopes to further reduce those numbers. Locally founded in 1994, the project, which stands for Peers Educating and Encouraging Respons
