Observers fear that, with a growing number being forced to survive on handouts from charities and the Orthodox Church, class warfare is brewing.
We haven't seen her dance since her church class days, when Tracey was the star; now she gives herself over to the pleasure of movement, as Tracey once did, silencing the mind and putting her body in control.
Mr. Ieremia was also a sickly refugee from sports, who began dancing in church classes at 13. Six years later, he gave up a good bank job, much to his parents' dismay, and fled to a ballet academy in Auckland, where he found himself in another foreign-feeling place.
Smith later said he became interested in religion at about the age of twelve; without doubt, he participated in church classes and read the Bible.
"They are the jewels, the church's class act," he says.
There, they required their young men to attend church and class as well as to play ball.
Ms. Deans is mindful, on those Sunday afternoons when she instructs the women who have come straight from church to class, to play only Christian music.
The Asburg church's class formed in 1797, built its "Red Meeting House" in 1811, and when it burned, built a new church in 1844.
The register of the Lansing, West Dryden and Asbury churches (1850-1880) lists baptisms, marriages, probationers, ministers, and church and class members.
"This is the first time I've ever had a priest teach me," said Jessie Serghin, a junior in the church history class at Gonzaga.
There's easier ways to make money than these visionary projects". Gilmore is in discussions with Cal State Los Angeles to use church and class buildings as performance and teaching facilities, and is talking to another group about a charter school there.
