Dancing Suspended in Air

<p><em><strong>Do you know what it's like to love to dance? More than anything?</strong></em></p><p>It’s 1959 and in a small town in New Hampshire 12-year-old Jo is a diligent ballerina in Mrs. Evans’s Saturday morning dance class. She dreams of becoming a professional ballerina but isn’t sure it’s possible due to a birth defect that resulted in a drooping eyelid.</p><p>Things only become worse when Jo’s best friend Laura abandons her for another dancer explaining that Jo isn’t pretty enough to keep as a friend. Jo is devastated and begins wondering if she wants to dance at all.</p><p>It isn’t long before she finds new friends who encourage her passion as well as a slew of adults who support her dream. Over the course of a year Jo starts to realize that maybe she is a talented dancer and<strong> maybe she’s perfect just the way she is.</p>