Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped foot in a ballroom.
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
Until I was in 6th grade, I took ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop.
I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.
I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.
I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.
My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.
I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.
I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.