Dance

I don't know how long I have been dancing, but I do know dance is my first language. It is the way that I speak. Even when I decided to take a step back from dance it remained within me. Music still calls for me to interpret, to describe how I am feeling.

Dance is me in my most vulnerable state. It is an intimate experience, but I have learned that my gift was not necessarily meant for me to keep to myself.

Dance is sacred and I often want to hide. Even after all these years... after all this time.. I have realized I wasn't given these gifts to keep them to myself.

For me not to dance is for me not to speak. I think I have been silent long enough...

Figure Skating

From growing up watching Scott Hamilton and Nancy Kerrigan,

to discovering Surya Bonaly and Vanessa James,

I found where I belong.

On the ice I found myself at home.

Everything I am, every sport I played prepared me where fate would bring me one day…