Outside of my academic pursuits, I spend a lot of time in the arts, mainly dance. I was enrolled into my first dance class when I
was four years old, after my mom noticed me constantly twirling around the house. Ever since then, the dance studio and I have grown
inseparable. As I grew up, I entered the Royal Academy of Dance program and branched out into more styles of dance, including
contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, and jazz. Throughout my fourteen years as a dancer, I have been a national finalist
with Starbound dance competition as well as completed all levels of the Royal Academy of Dance, receiving distinction with each examination.
After acheiving distinction for the last level of the exam, I was surprised with an invitation to the Margot Fonteyn competition, in
which just over one hundred dancers received such an opportunity. Although, I did not make as a finalist, I was grateful to have been able
to work with dancer Paul Boyd from the Queensland Ballet as well as faculty member of the Royal Academy of Dance, Hilary Clark. Outside of my
professional ballet training, I am also the captain of my high school's dance team.
Though dance is my primary source of expression, I also play a few musical instruments. I began playing piano at the age of five years old.
Dance has clearly reamined my favorite form of art but, alongside completing all levels of the Royal Academy of Dance, I also completed all levels
of piano with the Royal School of music. In sixth grade, I joined the school's orchestra, playing the viola. I continued playing viola well into high
school and held the position of violist first chair for over five years from middle school into the high school symphonic orchestra.
Outside of the forms of art in which I strictly trained with, I like to paint. In no ways do I paint well, but I enjoy watching an episode of friends
and amateurally painting different images I find online while Ross and Rachel fight about being on a break in the background. One of my favorite pieces to
immitate are Keith Haring's style of painting. I enjoy his unique interpretation of the living.
