WORCESTER, Mass. -- Some might call it the “American Idol” of ballet dancing.

“I love performing for people and becoming like a character when I dance,” said Karli Wilkinson, a 15-year-old from Dighton, Massachusetts ... at the Oklahoma City Ballet.

WORCESTER, Mass. — Some might call it the “American Idol” of ballet dancing. More than 400 hundred young ballet dancers from the Northeast gathered in Massachusetts with the hopes of winning ...