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  • Catherine Conley stands for a portrait outside the prestigious Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana. She is the first American ballet dancer to train as a full-time student in the school. She started in September 2016 and is finishing classes in June 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley during a practice with boys at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. It was the high number of male dancers at the school in Cuba that she thought would be a benefit in practicing and learning duet techniques. Her ballet director in Chicago did not believe there were enough boys to get the practice she needed to further her talents. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley during class at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley laces up her pointe shoes prior to class at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
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  • Catherine Conley rehearses with other students at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley watches as Cuban students Greta Hero Ortiz and Diego Donald Tapanes Valdes leap during practice at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. Conley has been impressed with what she calls the {quote}theatrical{quote} approach to dance that has made Cuban ballet so renowned. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley prepares for class at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley practices by herself at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley tends to her feet after removing her pointe shoes after class at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 10, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley practices her technique at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley looks out from the windows of her private home in the leafy neighborhood of Vedado in Havana, March 11, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley watches other ballet students practice at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. Next to her is fellow student Amanda de Jesus Perez Duarte. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • During a break at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March, 13, 2017, Angel Jesus Ramirez Castellanos and Catherine Conley talk over some frustrations that he has had. Conley has grown close to him and his family during her time studying ballet in Havana. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley shares a moment with other students after finishing a day of classes at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley walks alongside her boyfriend and fellow student Dario Hernandez Robaina in between classes at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 10, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley watches other ballet students practice at the Cuban National School of Ballet in Havana, March 13, 2017. ©2018 Alex Garcia
  • Catherine Conley and Cuban ballet dancer Dario Hernandez Robaina perform in the Ruth Page Center for the Performing Arts production of {quote}The Nutcracker{quote} at Northeastern Illinois University, December 4, 2016. Conley returned from her studies in Havana for the performance.©2018 Alex Garcia
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