"I was on a full scholarship and I left after two years. I said, I want to be in this commercial life professionally, but it was like ok. I have to kind of just go get it. I wouldn't say it was a fear but more of a feeling of just, not cluelessness, but a little bit of feeling lost. Not knowing exactly where to go but kind of just picking a direction and having faith that this was the correct direction to get me to where my goal was. That initial like telling my mother: Hey, I'm going to leave college. This is my plan. This is what I want to do. But you don't have any tangible things that you can tell somebody. It was like I want to go on tour. I want to do this and she was like: Oh, who’re you going on tour with? I don’t know, but I know I'm going to. I know I want to be in a movie. Oh, what movie? I don't know, but I want to. This is what I want and I don't necessarily know the exact steps I’m going to take, but I have some steps that I'm already taking, and hopefully, taking those steps will lead me to other steps and there on therefore that I can get to where I want to go. I would say that has been the biggest jolt of just realization or unsureness in my life, not knowing what's going to be next when you reach a certain level. You don't want to plateau. You always want to keep striving. So when you get to a certain level it’s like ok. What's next? Even with me being making a transition from performance to being a choreographer. I'm on like one of the biggest jobs you could be on as a dancer. I'm in Vegas. It's an A list celebrity. We're doing shows every night. From the outside-in it’s like the perfect world, but as I'm living it I'm like, I'm losing the love for some reason. I feel like I kind of plateaued like not really enjoying rehearsals because I've gotten to a point to where it's just kind of stagnant for me. And what's next? What's next? So you kind of have to take a step back and say what do I want to do? I knew it was something in dance. I've taught before and I've had teaching experience before so I knew I was a good teacher. So I was like let me see if this happens and then everything just kind of started rolling.”

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