Hsueh-tze Lee always thought she would have a career in science, but her passion for dance took her in a different direction. Lee, who studied at MIT and had received a doctorate in physiology from Harvard University, was teaching biology at Wellesley College in the 1990s when she discovered that her favorite pastime was becoming more and more important to her. Lee had been dancing socially since the 1970s, when she discovered folk dancing. By the time she was teaching at Wellesley, she was