Toeing a joyful line

International ballet teachers bring a new spirit of dance to young and old students in Beijing this summer, Chen Nan reports.

Ten-year-old Su Yingjun remembers the first time she could spin her body 360 degrees - staring straight ahead at the point where she started and feeling "like a superstar".

"When you swirl, you feel like the wind is coming to your face," her ballet teacher says - memorable words the girl would repeat after class. "I did feel what the teacher said," she told her mother, "and I felt like a real ballerina".