Int’l Dance Day: My Story in Pics

MY HISTORY — ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 1, 2022 ON INSTAGRAM@THEPOINTOFYOU

In honor of International Dance Day (April 29th), I’m reminiscing and sharing a little pictorial story of my ballet days.

While these first two decades of my life feel like a different lifetime now, I see so much of what I learned from the years of training and performing still present in my life and my work and who I am, today.

My life has always been a dance … and aways will be.

#1 First recital, lead bluebird.

#2 The day I sewed ribbons and elastic on my first pair of point shoes and stood in them for the first time in the driveway.

#3 First auditions photo, the year I received my first scholarship to San Francisco Ballet School.

#4, #5 & #6 Series of photos (by Kurt E. Fishback) taken on my 16th birthday, the year I accepted a full scholarship to American Ballet Theater School in NYC.

#7 Backstage before first solo as Autumn Fairy in "The Sleeping Beauty” (age 16).

#8 On stage rehearsal, with Gregory Amato, Capitol City Ballet.

#9 “Motorcycle Parts,” choreographed by Sunny Smith, with Nolan T’Sani, Capitol City Ballet Director/Dancer and former soloist with New York City Ballet.

#10 From the wings, "Sinfonia," choreographed by San Francisco Ballet principal dancer, Betsy Erickson, with Gregory Amato.