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voice and facial expression, but also your whole body.”
    â€œIt’s an awful lot to get right at the same time,” said Chloe.
    â€œOf course it is,” Mr. Penardos agreed. “And it’s important not to overdo it, bu’ people do hold their bodies in different ways when they feel different emotions. Let’s see how each of you would move if you were feeling sad. Then you can try all the different emotions you can think of.”
    When Marmalade started to express happiness, he went into a pirouette as he so often did when he was excited. But this time he wasn’t concentrating, and he fell over. Everyone laughed.
    â€œYou’ve forgotten about spotting during your pirouette,” Mr. Penardos told Marmalade as he got up, grinning ruefully. “You of all people should be able to do that. Don’t forget that your head should be the last part of you to turn and the first to arrive, and keep those eyes focused on a spot at eye level or you’ll fall again. Jack, can you pirouette?”
    â€œYes,” said Jack quietly.
    â€œGo ahead,” Mr. Penardos said. “Do a few and show Marmalade how it’s done.”
    Marmalade had to stand by and watch while Jack executed a series of perfectly balanced turns. Jack’s ballet training had given him great poise. He made the pirouettes look effortless.
    Chloe was very impressed. “That’s fantastic,” she enthused when Jack had finished. “And they look really serious somehow. When Marmalade does them, they’re just a laugh.”
    â€œIt’s all about the emotion ,” Marmalade told her quickly.
    Mr. Penardos laughed. “Yes, it is,” he agreed, “and Marmalade is very good at being funny when he dances. But don’t do any more careless moves,‘ he added to Marmalade. ‘I’ve seen you fooling around in the hallway. You don’ want to get an injury, do you?”
    Marmalade shook his head, hating to be reprimanded in front of Jack.
    â€œOkay,” said Mr. Penardos. “There’s just time to shower before your next lesson. Off you go.” He picked up the discarded headset and turned away.
    Danny caught up with Marmalade at the showers. “He was right about you dancing around between classes,” he told Marmalade. “Don’t risk your Rising Stars place, okay? It’s not worth it.”
    â€œIt would be terrible to get injured,” agreed Jack seriously.
    But Marmalade was in no mood to listen to either of them. To begin with, he hadn’t liked being upstaged by Jack. He didn’t usually mind falling, and normally made a joke of it, but with Jack on hand to show how a pirouette should be done, Marmalade felt as if he’d been made to look silly. He also resented Danny warning him about the Rising Stars Concert.
    â€œI know exactly what I’m doing,” he told them both. “I need to practice all the time. And you use your drumsticks all over the place,” he added to Danny. “I’ve seen you! On the walls, on your knees, on tables ... but no one tells you not to use them without your drum set!”
    Danny opened his mouth and then closed it again without speaking. Marmalade could tell that he wasn’t convinced by the comparison of dancer and drummer. After all, no one could argue that Danny’s drumming on the walls was dangerous. But Marmalade wasn’t about to stop leaping and twirling all day long. It was just the way he was. He’d been born with springs in his feet and he didn’t want to just walk seriously from place to place. Why should he stop? Dancing was his whole life. He couldn’t bear to keep it strictly to dance studios and performances. Anywhere would work for him. And nothing anyone said would make him change his mind!

6. Turning Over a New Leaf
    Whatever Marmalade felt about dancing, he knew clowning around during class had to stop for a while. Mrs. Pinto and the other