This dancer receives a royal honor and dispels gender stereotypes, one move at a time
What was your first exposure to dance?At the age of 4, I took my first ballet class. It was a small studio with green painted walls.
There were posters of the past ballerinas doing The Nutcracker, and the teacher was one of my mom’s closest friends. At one point, she made all of us gather around a photo, and as she spoke about alignment, she traced her finger from the top of the dancer’s wrist to the bottom of her pointe shoe.
It was the first time I had imagined myself doing precisely what the ballerina was doing, and it clicked that dance was for me.Who were the teachers or other role models contributing to your pursuit of dance as a career?A group of people that always inspires me is my family.
I’ve faced many obstacles in finding myself as an artist and making a career out of dance, but I have always been able to return to them.The person who springboarded my career was Alexandra Wells.
