Signing up for your first ballet class might feel like ... forming a wide V position (or, ideally, perfectly horizontal). Arms are in a round O shape in front of the dancer’s breastbone.

If you're unfamiliar with ballet positions, follow Bowers ... the legs and core while strengthening the arms and back!" says Bowers. Begin in first position with the heels together and feet ...

On a recent Sunday morning, at an hour when many a teenager is still prone in bed, Adam Bernstein, 15, and Eli Gruska, 13, were lying face down on the floor of a Los Angeles ballet studio.

Ultimately, “First Position” may document an approach to ballet that’s on its way out, and one can hope that Kargman continues to follow her subjects---especially the phenomenal Aran Bell ...

"I just love ballet so much," he says. "It's hard to explain." Sponsor Message That passion is evident in almost all of the dancers in First Position. But their personal stories are very different.