December 2016 | Ballet Scene | Crossing Boundaries

When My-Linh Le watches turfers at work, she sees the grace, fluidity, and balance of ballet—no small feat, considering that turfers often perform their style of street dance aboard San Francisco Bay Area BART trains, busking for donations in cramped and unsteady spaces. “Turfers tend to get [up] on their toes,” she says, “and they like to do spins.”So it made sense to Le to combine ballet and turfing in a concert setting. In 2015, the Oakland, California–base