“To dance is to be out of yourself," Agnes de Mille famously proclaimed. I one hundred percent agree with that statement and I live it wholeheartedly. There is something so special about telling stories with the body and feeling that sense of freedom during performances. Trying to describe the way it makes me feel is almost impossible. Every step and every turn has its own purpose. My mom put me in dance when I was two years old. Since then, I have continued to grow as an artist, but along the way I struggled.
For many years, I was living with chronic knee pain that continued to worsen as time went on. Nothing that I tried eased my agony. My orthopedist finally told me that the time had come to have surgery. I was fifteen years old and in less than two months, both of my knees had been operated on, which left …show more content…
I was training four days a week outside of school and I had dance class everyday at school. I conditioned and pushed myself harder than ever before. Attending master classes, summer camps and college intensives taught me more about myself than I could ever imagine. I was able to take classes at Broadway Dance Center NYC on scholarship, and I was also one of 36 out of hundreds who auditioned accepted into the University of North Carolina School of the Arts(UNCSA) Commercial Dance Intensive(CDI). Countless hours of stretching and practicing made me stronger and stronger. During the two weeks I spent at UNCSA CDI, my eyes were opened to a whole new field in the dance world. Being there made me realize that I want to become a commercial dancer. The CDI faculty included a well-known dancer named Cassidy Noblett, some may know him as Katy Perry’s dance captain. Not only does he dance for Miss Perry herself, but he also dances for other pop stars such as Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and The Spice Girls. His classes and seminars spoke volumes to me. Commercial dance is exactly what I want to