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Pas de deux: Pa. Ballet dancers are engaged

Lauren Fadeley and Francis Veyette did the deed in the Bahamas.

On a private island in the Bahamas on Sunday, he dropped to one knee in the water and popped the question.

The two, together for two years, met in 1997 at the Rock School for Dance Education. They reconnected 10 years later, when Fadeley joined Pennsylvania Ballet. They live in Center City with their cat, Lily, and dog, Emmett. No wedding date has been set.

They'll join three Pennsylvania Ballet married couples: principal dancers Julie Diana and Zachary Hench, principal dancers Arantxa Ochoa and Alexander Iziliaev, and principal dancer Martha Chamberlain and company member Jonathan Stiles.