Personal Narrative: Kansas City Ballet

Ever since I was young I remember dance always being one of those things that was always there when I needed it. Everyday I looked forward to going to class and working hard, doing my best to get better everyday. I officially started dancing when I was three, however, it wasn’t until I got to the age of around 10 or 11. This was about a year after I moved to Kansas City and when I just started going to the Kansas City Ballet. The whole experience changed my point of view completely over not just dance but ballet to. I would definitely not be where I am today if it wasn’t for moving to KCB. It wasn’t just the studio in general it was the atmosphere it had and the teachers they had there. I remember my second year going there I was moved up from level three to four and they had just hired a new teacher that almost everyone did not like. While everyone was thinking about how much they didn’t like her class all I could think about how she was the one teacher that would actually challenge us to do better than what was expected, she would always push us past where we had been pushed before which is why I loved her so much and still do to this day. Now at age 13 in level 6 I still have
I learn so much just from watching them and it gives me a goal to strive toward and something or someone I would want to be. Not only do I just get to watch them but, I get to dance with them to! They many performances in their season such as Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Alice and Wonderland, Swan Lake, and Cinderella. I was so lucky to have the opportunity to be cast as Clara in their production of the nutcracker. Along with being clara in the Nutcracker I was also in Alice in Wonderland,Cinderella,and was on out of eight students chosen to dance with the Dance Theater of Harlem in one of their