{"id":40598,"date":"2021-04-26T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/?p=40598"},"modified":"2025-06-16T05:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:24:56","slug":"a-passion-for-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/a-passion-for-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Passion for Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Rare Magazine speaks with dancer Jessie Williams\u2019 on her love for dance. \n<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Jessie Williams:<\/strong><\/span> I started when I was three at a local dance school. You went just to have fun and dancing was your hobby, but I just fell in love with it! My mom took me, but she didn\u2019t know anything about dancing because she\u2019s got two left feet. It was my Nana who put me into dancing and paid for my classes.<\/p>

I was never really a natural dancer. I had to work so hard for it. Nothing really came easy. I would go and do trampolining, gymnastics, and running. I used to run 800metres and I could just run that like it was nothing. But when I went to dance class it challenged me; it wasn\u2019t easy, so I chose that over running because it was harder.<\/p>

JW:<\/span> <\/strong>Well, when I was eleven or twelve, I was on YouTube and came across the Spirit Young Performers Company. I thought, these guys are really good; I want to go and train there! I saw they had auditions coming up and I signed myself up and didn\u2019t even tell my mom. I just told her she had to take me.<\/p>

I went to the audition and danced and then I sang at the end because they have a dance company and also one for performers. I got into the one for performers, but not for the dance one. So I spent two years at the performers\u2019 company just trying to get into the one for dancers, and finally, after four attempts I got in.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The next thing was to work really hard to get onto the competition team, and a year later I made it onto the team. But they told me I would start right at the back, hidden. But eventually, I was at the front and featured and just felt so special. It was a realization of how far I\u2019d come.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> It was lyrical contemporary, jazz, ballet, acrobatic, and tap. This year I applied for the Stage Magazine scholarship and I got it after my third attempt of going for that, which is great because dancing is expensive.<\/p>

JW:<\/span><\/strong> I don\u2019t really have a favorite, but I am probably more confident in lyrical and jazz.<\/p>

JW:<\/span><\/strong> I really love Autumn Miller! I\u2019ve watched her since she was nine or ten. She had an Autumn Miller Freestyle Friday on YouTube and I have watched her since then. Everything about her I just love!<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> I would love to be in a West End Musical, singing and acting and dancing.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> Yes, I just started there!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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JW:<\/strong><\/span> I would love to be in Billy Elliott<\/strong><\/em>. It\u2019s the first musical I ever saw. I love that it employs everyone from young children to adults and everyone gets a chance to shine.<\/p>

JW:<\/span><\/strong> Ha ha!<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> When I was little, we had a trampoline, and my sister Abby, who is four years older than me, would try and teach me and I would just cry. I couldn\u2019t do it. She would just throw me backward until I got it. And finally, from that first backflip that landed on the trampoline, I was straight onto the floor to try it until I learned more and more moves.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> Ha ha! I am not good enough to do that.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> Well, in five years\u2019 time I will have just finished my degree course in dance, and hopefully I will be performing or auditioning for West End musicals and also modeling.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> I loved Newsies!<\/strong><\/em> They filmed the Broadway production of it. If I were a boy I\u2019d really want to dance in that. I saw An American in Paris, and I was just amazed at how effortless they made it all look.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> I was doing Pantomime and my friend had just become an ambassador for them. This was back in 2017 when they first started. I went onto their Instagram page and I saw their first-ever collection. I went to the MOVE IT dance convention and bought my first leotard from them. I went home and took some photos and posted them and then I went to Can You Dance, another dance convention, and I bought my second piece. I was tagging them in all my photos.<\/p>

I applied to be an ambassador in 2018, but I didn\u2019t get it. But I haven\u2019t got things before so why give up? So I spent the whole year doing photo shoots with different photographers. I was always wearing Eden because I wanted to show how loyal I am. \u201cI\u2019m here and I want to be your ambassador! Please!\u201d I love their clothing and their ethos.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> They include everyone. No matter the shape you are, your color\u2014they embrace it. They are such an inclusive brand. They are such lovely people to be around. I knew that we could work well together. They invited me to a group photoshoot for their Vivian collection in 2018, and then I became an ambassador in 2019. They called and said we\u2019re going to go to Manchester for a photoshoot, then to Scotland, and then to Majorca. That was amazing!<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> Yes, when I was growing up there were only really two dance brands and everyone had the same leotards from them. You couldn\u2019t really be an individual; you couldn\u2019t really stand out. We all looked liked clones. But Eden brings out so many different colors of each leotard that no one is the same wearing it.<\/p>

JW:<\/strong><\/span> You can create your own style. I love that about it. \"\"<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Jessie Williams: I started when I was three at a local dance school. You went just to have fun and dancing was your hobby, but I just fell in love with it! My mom took me, but she didn\u2019t know anything about dancing because she\u2019s got two left feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":10933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40598"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40618,"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions\/40618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troora.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}