If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
“I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.”
“I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar fac”