Practice with the Big Kids Ava is unable to stand as Carlyann can (left ) but she is thrilled to be wearing her tutu in Central Park, New York, with 230 other dancers in a highly organized attempt to break a record for the most ballerinas on pointe at the same moment. Motor skills are developing in exactly the same way on the other side of the world (right) despite superficial opposites (boys, Japan, soccer, pick-up game).