At the early age of 5, I began taking ballet lessons. I remember as a little girl, I would jump and twirl around the den floor and always asking my mom to watch me dance. With enthusiasm, she decided to enroll me in ballet lessons with the well-known Prima Ballerina, Lelia Haller. As years progressed into my teen years, I expanded my dancing interests in jazz and tap with Tony Bevenito. In my first recital with Mr. Bevenito, I danced to “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”. In combination with all of my training and during the summer months of 1971 and 1972, I enrolled in dance lessons with the “American Ballet Theatre” Ballet Dance School in New York (and oh, what an exciting time in my life that was). I continued my ballet training as a form of exercise throughout my adult life. Dancing ballet and jazz has helped me to develop poise, elegance and most of all self-confidence and discipline throughout my life and the courage and self-confidence to be independent and to obtain my goals and dreams. In my adult life, I wanted to do more dancing, and not just ballet classes for exercises. Therefore, I enrolled with a friend to take ballroom dance lessons. My first instructor was Glenn Mallagari with Studio 734, owned and directed by Victoria Sanders and Shane Carroll. As I became to love ballroom dancing immensely, I decided to take it to the next level, which was to become an instructor achieving my Bronze Certification in 1998. My main goal was to teach couples how to dance for fun and to have something to share together throughout their lives. I continue to this day my dance training yearly with some of the Top World Pros in Ballroom dancing and am currently testing to achieve the next level in ballroom dance certification. |
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