i studied dance.
now i move.
I began studying ballet when I was 4 years old. I trained competitively on the professional track for 11 years, studying the Vaganova method under Jorge Esquivel, Amparo Brito, and Yoira Esquivel-Brito from the National Ballet of Cuba, and Alexi Zubiria from the San Francisco Ballet.
At age 15, deep in auditions and competitions, I was told that the intensity of my training was putting my health at risk. I stepped off the professional track.
But my ballet training ingrained in my core an obsession with movement and the human body –– understanding every cell of the body to test its limitations, document beauty, and feel a story.
I still move.
recognition
Youth America Grand Prix: International Ballet Competition – 2016
Semi-Finals Classical Senior Division: Top 24
Full Scholarship to Ballet West Professional Company Summer Intensive
World Ballet Competition – 2016
Selected to compete in Global Finals in Orlando, Florida
Encore: National Dance Competition – 2016
Classical Solos: Ultra High Gold
Contemporary Solo: Ultra High Gold
Top 20 Overall
National Convention Scholarship
Youth America Grand Prix: International Ballet Competition – 2015
Semi-Finals Classical Junior Division: Top 24
Accepted into the following professional company summer intensives: American Ballet Theater (NYC), San Francisco Ballet, Kirov Academy of Ballet, Ellison Ballet
Paquita Variation – Youth American Grand Prix 2016
Talisman Variation – World Ballet Competition Audition 2016
Paquita Variation – World Ballet Competition Audition 2016
Bluebird Variation – Youth American Grand Prix 2015
Talisman Variation – Youth American Grand Prix 2015
Photographer: Alaric Ma
Photographer: Kelli Kuramoto
