Emilia has loved the ballet since the very first time she saw a live performance when she was a preschooler. Since that day, she has dreamed of taking dance classes, but many doors were closed to her or eventually slammed shut. Still, she kept dancing at home, watching ballets online and on local stages, and hoping for her chance.
This summer it finally came in the form of an offer for an assessment from the Cincinnati Ballet.
The assessment was followed by an invitation to study dance with qualified one on one support for the 2021/22 school year at the Cincinnati Ballet. And today, after years of hoping and dreaming, our girl attended her first class.
I won't pretend that watching her in the studio this morning didn't rain tears and snot into my mask in an ugly cry that caught me utterly off guard and unprepared for its intensity. There she was finally where she had wanted to be for so long.
And so the story of our little dancer has entered a new chapter which I think we will thoroughly enjoy.
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