June 7, 2002
Preparing for Life After the Last Pirouette
A program at St. Mary's College of California educates dancers for careers out of the limelightSewing new straps onto her pink ballet shoes, Muriel Maffre pauses to consider her unusual situation.
A 36-year-old principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, she is not only a star of the ballet world, but she will soon become a rarity in it: a college graduate.
In 1999, she was the first enrollee in LEAP (Liberal Education for Arts Professionals), a program at St. Mary's
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