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What’s a common misnomer about ballerinas that you wish to dispel today?
When I say I’m a ballet dancer, a lot of people ask me if my life is like the movie “Black Swan” and it is not at all! Most dancers within the ballet world are all incredibly supportive of one another. Of course, just like any other career, there is competition that abounds, but it is nothing like that movie.
Name a guilty pleasure song, that perhaps has nothing to do with ballet or the fine arts generally, but that you’d listen to over anything from Swan Lake.
“L-O-V-E” by Nat King Cole or “Mambo No. 5” by Lou Bega.
