It is 5:30 p.m. on a snowy January night in the Jamaica, Queens section of New York. Eight year old Princess Stewart, a dance student at the Imani Dance Hall of Hollis, practices her leg lifts while waiting to be picked up by her mother. “Her father and I have always had an interest in her [Princess] learning other forms of art besides just hip-hop,” says Monica Stewart, the mother of Princess about what inspired her to enroll her child in an after school ballet program. READ MORE