How did some inner-city high school football players become professional dancers? Ask Bill Wade, a modern dancer and choreographer at the Cleveland School of the Arts. Wade conducts after-school classes 3 days a week for 2 1/2 hours for at-risk males. In the classes, "youth talk and discover similarities among themselves that become the subject of their performances." For these inner-city youth, the self-discipline associated with dance is helping them grow into manhood. The current troupe has been together for 4 years and is performing around the state, on television and with Pilobolus, a professional dance company. A new program is offered 2 days a week to boys in grades 6-8. Some program participants have made remarkable strides, winning scholarships to the Interlochen Arts Academy, Ohio State University, the Julliard School and the Martha Graham School. One dancer was recently hired by the Bill T. Jones Dance Company.