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Davis, who Danced with Misty Copeland:Ballet Dancer Leaps Onto Subway Tracks and Lifts Man to Safet
After a 58-year-old man fell onto subway tracks Saturday night in Manhattan, a ballet dancer, who had just watched his wife perform with American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House, leapt down after him. With a lift that they do not teach in dance school, he moved him to safety.
“At first I waited for somebody else to jump down there,” said Gray Davis, 31, a dancer with American Ballet Theater, said in a telephone interview on Sunday. “People were screaming to get help. But nobody jumped down. So I jumped down.”
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The man, who the police said was homeless and whose name was not released, was pushed onto the northbound tracks at the 72nd Street station by a woman who then fled on foot, witnesses told the police. Soon after, the police arrested Carolyn Mack, 23, of the Bronx, on an assault charge. (She told investigators she did not push the man.) He was knocked unconscious after hitting the tracks, but regained consciousness before he was taken to the hospital, the police said.
Mr. Davis, a native of Greenwood, S.C., who has been a member of the corps de ballet at Ballet Theater since 2007, was not dancing on Saturday because he was recovering from a herniated disk. But his wife, Cassandra Trenary, a soloist, had danced in both the matinee and the evening performances of “The Golden Cockerel” on Saturday, and they were leaving the theater, with his mother, when the incident unfurled.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/arts/dance/ballet-dancer-gray-davis-subway-rescue.html
A hero, a ballet dancer with a herniated disc jumped to the tracks to save a homeless man.
Bravo Mr. Davis. Encore~
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thank You. Bless ALL concerned 💖
Thank You, Darlin, for this post. 
Misty is an awwwsome Woman,a"home town Girl".
Blesses me, that she has a Righteous Partner & Helpmate.
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... life and the entire world is a lost cause. No hope.
And then, something like this comes along to make one realize that there's some good left... that humanity does exist.
and 
Stories like this give me hope. Thanks, sheshe 
Sad though that the homeless man was pushed.
