European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Photos for s by Jerry Baker aspiring to be a Ballet dancer Kristen Wielandt during a recital below and together with classmates Gabriella Muzziello left and Barbara Coppola Ballet coach correcting Kristen position training at against a Wall to increase her turnout assuming a Ballet position during a russian dance Ballerina is on her toes by Kristin wild special to stars stripes while most 13yearolds have a hard time planning a week ahead and have no idea what they want to do for a Kristen eight grader at Naples american High has known her career goal for she has already begun training to be a professional Ballet aspiring ballerinas commonly begin taking lessons As a fifth level out of eight student of Leucole de la Danse Aca Emique i Tony Ferrante in Kristen spends an hour to an hour and a half in Ballet class six Days each she has been in a similar routine for about five years and will continue it As Long As her dream of becoming a professional dancer is still it May be a dream but Kristen tries to maintain a realistic Ive had to work for i can but Ive had to work a it takes strength in the Good really turned out legs and but i think its going to be Worth in going to be a professional Ive always wanted to be she says with in Kristen Pat relates the Story of Kristen at age asking to take a dance but she just  do the class was right at Nap a couple years later in san naps were not so important to when i was started taking a class that was a combination of tumbling and when i was started classes in Ballet an hour to an hour and a half Long every plus from 1980 through Kristen schedule did not get any she was selected to perform in the California Ballet company Nutcracker suite for three years in a she participated in childrens theater in continued piano lessons and was selected to perform with a touring demonstration musical whose father is Navy Fred arrived with her family in Naples in August soon Kristen enrolled in Tony ferrante1 s dance studio and soon encountered a new dimension to this sinday Sweek dance her Ballet and character classes Are taught in italian and most of the students Are now that Ive been Here i can understand the the Steps Are All in it was really hard to understand at Kristen but now i have a lot of italian its really we get by with a Little a Little English and sign another dimension she has found is that the whole training philosophy for Ballet students in Italy seems to be different from that in the United italian instructors Are very particular about discipline is very in the they push dancers More to learn perform said Kristen one would think that someone must have been pushing this Little but that someone is Kristen Kristen has always known what she her Mother i knew nothing about in i was 25 before i saw one and at first i didst like it All that so i started to do a Little anything that takes up six Days of my Childs i belter know Kristen including her 15yearold brother and her have discovered the Good and bad of the Ballet the bad includes potentially serious anorexia fierce Competition and typically Low As Pat Wielandt a dancers family is a dancers it May be a but a professional dancer cant do it without the support of the you cant decide at age 18 to be a Kristen training has required much support from her family at times Money and emotional according to this learning experience in the world of performing arts has Given each member of the family a better appreciation of the my son has seen More Ballet and theater but he can be critical which is something i  do at 20 or even coming to Naples brought unexpected benefits to Kristen Ballet As there is no summer Ballet program Kristen applied to seven major Ballet schools in the last Spring and was accepted to the Jeffrey Ballet school in new York her grandparents live in new Jersey and the easy commute eased some of the tension of a rigorous 17class per week it was so much harder than i expected it to i got used to when i got Back it was she Kristin wild is an in specialist at the family service Naples support Page 14 the stars and stripes August the stars and stripes Page 15