I TOOK MY FIRST DANCE class when I was six, and fell in love with dancing. As a senior in high school I was faced with the age-old question that visits every dancer—should I dance or go to college? My parents, quite literally, dragged me kicking and screaming through the college application process. I had already decided that I'd rather dance professionally than go to school.
One day, after coming home from teaching a ballet class, I found an article on my bed (put there by my dad). The first few lines said, "The place you seek is seeking you. The place you need needs you. Principle brings need and supply together for mutual good." I don't know the source of those words, but for me, this was—and still is—a profound idea. No matter how you think of place, whether as a particular city or state, or a position one holds in a dance company or at work, the place you need needs you and seeks you. Principle, or God, is always guiding all of His children to their right places.
Although I didn't think this meant college, I applied to a university in New York City that had a dance program. I walked out of the audition surprised at how at home and confident I felt in the school's studios, and I immediately felt calm about everything and comfortable in my skin there. I knew I was going to be at that university the next year.
