Dance has no boundaries, and inside of Beechwood Elementary School, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater teaches more than movement. Students learn about the mind-body connection, discipline, and a love of the arts.

"It's about learning how to be in a group of other people. It's learning how to navigate space. It's learning self-regulation. It's learning how to connect to music," said Pittsburgh Ballet Theater teacher Jamie Murphy.

She's just one of the instructors from Pittsburgh Ballet Theater who teaches ballet to three classes per day at Beechwood Elementary, every weekday, all school year long.

"It's really something beautiful to watch them," she said. "[To] be able to show a new side of themselves that when I started with them in September, some of them were a little more shy this or that, a

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