My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.
When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami's New World School of the Arts, and from there, I went on to study at The Juilliard School.
My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us.