I grew up in England, not far from London. I fell into dance completely by chance. The mother of my best friend had bought several ballet lessons for her and her brother, but her brother was ready to give up after the first class. Since the lessons had already been paid for, she offered my parents the remaining classes. […]
For me, classical dancing is strongly associated with family ties. Both my grandparents on my mother’s side were dancers, my grandmother was a Professor at the Conservatoire. […]
I am Jacopo and I come from Landriano, Lombardy. I am twenty-three and have been living in Moscow since October 2016. I first decided to be a dancer when I was five. […]
The introduction of ballet came to me from my mother. She always adored ballet and took it throughout her life. So when I was little, she used to place me in the corner of the ballet studio as she took class and I would calmly watch. Classical ballet has always been in my life but the first form of dance that really captured me was actually Scottish Highland Dancing. […]
Comme tant de petites filles, ma maman m’avait inscrite à un cours de danse avant que je puisse vraiment prendre cette décision de mon propre chef. J’avais quatre ans. Je me souviens du bonbon « Krema » attendu avec gourmandise à l’issue du cours si nous l’avions mérité. […]
I chose to dance at a very young age. It all started when my mom took me and my younger sister to see Giselle in Bucharest. I was eight. Giselle was wearing a blue dress. It was like seeing an angel. I had no clue about the story or who the ballerina was. What I knew is I wanted to do that. […]
When I hear people describing dance as a “weapon for change”, it sounds strong; or rather, striking. Still, the word weapon disturbs me. If the definition of weapon is something designed and used for inflicting damage, then dance is the opposite of a weapon, it is a healer. […]
I started dancing when I was 5, my mother would always take me to the opera to see Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, and I remember daydreaming of the day I’d become a ballerina myself. […]
My first memory of dancing was in my childhood home to ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ from The Nutcracker. Later on, my father remarked that my steps had been lovely because they had come from my own imagination. […]
I do not have a specific first memory of dancing, because all my early childhood memories involve dancing ballet in one way or another. […]