Professional ballet dancer. Technique coach. Still performing. Still coaching.
I am a professional ballet dancer and online technique coach, and for over ten years I have taught dancers in studios and on screens across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Malaysia.
My own training took me through Ecole Superieure de Ballet du Quebec, Miami City Ballet, the Ailey School in New York, American Ballet Theatre, and Joffrey Chicago. I spent two years dancing alongside the National Ballet of Cuba, where I learned a way of training rotation and weight placement that changed how I move and how I teach. I have performed professionally in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Cleveland, Albuquerque, and Montreal, and I currently dance with Manassas Ballet Theatre.
Over the past decade I have worked with an enormous range of dancers. Pre-professional students preparing for company auditions and competitive programs. Adult dancers returning to ballet after years away, or finally starting for the first time in their twenties, thirties, and beyond. Competitive dancers in contemporary and lyrical styles who use ballet technique to strengthen everything else they do. Parents who simply want their child to receive real, individualized attention rather than another open class with no progression.
What ties all of that together is one belief I have held since I started coaching. Every dancer, at every level, deserves to understand the why behind their training, not just the what. A correction that is explained becomes permanent. A correction that is just repeated stays exactly where it has always been.
That is the entire foundation of Precision in Practice. Less is more, actually.
I coach serious dancers online, one on one. I am not here to give you yet another ballet class. You can get that anywhere. What we do is dive deep into the root cause of the corrections you are getting in class and why they keep coming back. Most of the corrections you have been getting for years are right, but the foundation underneath them is what is missing. That foundation is what we rebuild together. We focus on one structural pattern that, once it shifts, makes everything else fall into place. The point is not more repetition. The point is a different understanding of what the work is actually asking for, whether it is an overall technical issue or a specific roadblock like pirouettes, balance, or extensions.
Less is More, Actually.