Growing up attending a bunhead ballet school meant that you probably had the usual suspects of characters traipsing around the hallways and studios of the school with a 32-count piano soundtrack perpetually playing in the background.  For me, I had the eccentric, international male teacher (German), the Balanchine muse ballet master (Allegra Kent), the students who were deeply passionate about ballet, the students whose parents were  more in love with the art form than their own little darlings, the ballet beauty, the adolescent boy who everyone swooned over, the outcast, the rising star – we had them all.  And to my knowledge, every ballet school has these list of characters – without them, ballet life as we know it would be boring and a non-sequetor.  Director Bess Kargman’s First Position, the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary film that follows the journey of six young dancers through their hardships in competing in the Youth America Grand Prix, was released in theaters last week.  I was giddy with anticipation as the trailers played on in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center of Lincoln Center, waiting for the main attraction to begin.  And as the story unfolded, all of my childhood ballet school characters made their film debut, reminding me that the crazy life of dance is universal.