New York City ballerina performs at Village Green in Federal Way

Claire Kretzschmar, a ballerina with the New York City Ballet and granddaughter of Federal Way resident Leo Thoennes, performed for the residents of Village Green Retirement Campus, where Thoennes resides, June 8. According to Thoennes, Kretzschmar has been featured in the New York Times as an outstanding ballerina with the New York City Ballet. RAECHEL DAWSON, the Mirror