“On a recent Monday afternoon, the gym at Ingersoll Community Center is a study in controlled chaos. Standing in a loosely-defined circle around the basketball court, about 20 dancers have gathered for rehearsal. Soon, one moves through the rapid, subtle isolations of animation, an invisible current coursing through each joint and muscle. Another glides fluidly across the floor, adding a slow turn. Sometimes, dancers yell to each other as they try to remember where they’re supposed to stand, or whose turn it is to move into the center of the court. A few who have been practicing hat tricks start shooting baskets with the hat instead. Music with a heavy beat plays from a set of speakers next to a laptop computer, where a man crouches quietly, watching.”
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