Louisville Ballet

I was trained by Americans until I got to the Washington Ballet at 13 is when I had my first European teacher.

And I didn't have another European teacher until I was in Louisville Ballet.

I don't think that where you happen to be born makes you a good ballet teacher.

Right.

I love it.

So shifting gears, because now we're going into the Louisville ballet years.

You worked with some very different choreographic voices at Louisville.

Alan Jones, Adam Hoagland, Ma Kang.

I can't take credit for this phrase, but I love it, and I use it a lot.

Classical ballet is a contemporary art form, and it is something that has resonated with me.

It's something that former artistic director Robert Curran of Louisville Ballet, who is very much a mentor of mine, When he said that it really resonated with me because classical ballet in order to stay sustainable has to stay relevant.

Doesn't mean that we have to change it.