All the while Eliza Babinska charged along, energy spilling out of her body like sparks of electricity.
“Eliza hates this,” Vasilisa, her older sister, said with a giggle.
When Vasilisa first saw her perform, she said: “I was like, that’s my sister?
I saw her face, and I was like, whoa.”Even the way Eliza holds her head in class is imposingly regal.
On the subway, her chin started to droop, almost as heavily as her eyelids.
Persons:
Pati, Eliza Babinska, —, “ Eliza, ” Vasilisa, Eliza, Julia, Vasilisa, “
Organizations:
New York City Ballet, School, American Ballet
Locations:
Queens, Manhattan, barre, droop