--- description: State Street Ballet dancers performed on the moving walkway at Denver International Airport title: See the Graceful Way Ballet Dancers Deal With a Layover image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See the Graceful Way Ballet Dancers Deal With an Annoying Layover  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Dec 10, 2015 3:39 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Dec 10, 2015 3:39 PM CUT To make time fly during a five-hour layover at Denver International Airport, ballet dancers on a _Nutcracker_ tour turned the moving walkway into their own stage. Members of State Street Ballet, based in Santa Barbara, Calif., [entertained](https://www.facebook.com/nick.topete/videos/10208361562140290/ "undefined") airline passengers by demonstrating various ballet positions — port de bras, cambre and arabesque lifts. One man seems to just casually hold a handstand as passengers race by him. The [video](https://www.facebook.com/nick.topete/videos/10208361562140290/ "undefined") has been shared more than 40,000 times since one of the dancers, Nick Topete, uploaded the clip to Facebook Monday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4144278/airport-ballet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4144278/airport-ballet/"},"headline":"See the Graceful Way Ballet Dancers Deal With an Annoying Layover","datePublished":"2015-12-10T15:39:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:35.301Z","description":"Air travel has never looked so relaxing","url":"https://time.com/4144278/airport-ballet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4144278/airport-ballet/","name":"See the Graceful Way Ballet Dancers Deal With an Annoying Layover"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Misty Copeland On Changing the Face of Ballet","description":"\"I never thought I could make a career out of something I enjoyed doing something I was passionate about, something that gave me a voice,\" says Copeland, who is one of the first African Americans to be a soloist with American Ballet Theatre.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hwcdTt33/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-16T01:56:48.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hwcdTt33.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4144278/airport-ballet/","duration":"PT2M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4144278/airport-ballet/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```