How ballet can save your life in prison

Haglund doesn't know what made him think that this could be useful or relevant, but here is a six minute interview with Luke Padgett, formerly of San Quentin State Prison (burglary, arson, car theft, first-degree murder) where he apparently was a "terrifying" and "electrifying" Macbeth in the prison's theater production and most recently of California State Prison in Solano. He credits his childhood ballet lessons, which were forced upon him by his mother, with giving him the exact talent and skills he needed in order to escape harm during a major prison riot.

Just throwing this out there. It's from KALW San Francisco local public radio 91.7 FM. Here is a link to the accompanying article Dance or die: how ballet could save your life in a prison riot.

Besides, we all should be donating more to National Public Radio stations.