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He later said he was taking ballet lessons to improve his technique on the ice.
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By the age of 14, he was studying Chinese opera movement and paying for his first ballet lessons with money earned by writing. (He later published two novels.) The turning point came when Lin studied with modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - influences that could be detected flitting through his early work with Cloud Gate.
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Joel, who was born in the Bronx, said he was teased when he would get piano lessons since that teacher also taught ballet.
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