SALT LAKE CITY — Sounds of pointe shoes can always be heard inside the studios of Ballet West, but you would never guess the person wearing those shoes is 23-year-old Jonas Malinka-Thompson.
His ballet journey started when he was just six years old.
“My parents had me on our kindergarten soccer team,” Thompson said, “but I was never really focused on the ball. I was always kind of off to the side, twirling and leaping around.”…