Huffington Postのインスタグラム(huffpost) - 6月27日 20時40分

Today's assignment: Don’t let fear hold you back. Lauren Lovette hasn’t. ⠀ ⠀
The New York City Ballet principal dancer was an anxious kid. Growing up in a close-knit and deeply religious family, Lovette was homeschooled in southern California, and says she was afraid of pretty much everything. “I was afraid of the water, I was afraid of heights, I was afraid of any game I didn’t know how to play, afraid I would be bad at it,” she recalls. ⠀ ⠀
She was the last person you’d expect to choose a career that involves being scrutinized in a leotard, being lifted in the air and performing in front of hundreds of people. Yet today, Lovette dances lead roles, and choreographs new ballets, for one of the biggest ballet companies in the world. ⠀ ⠀
“Taking my first ballet class was the first really brave thing I did. I didn’t know what I was doing and everybody else did, and I felt very overwhelmed,” Lovette tells HuffPost.⠀ ⠀
A week turned into a month, and then into years. At 14, Lovette was accepted into the prestigious School of American Ballet, the feeder school for New York City Ballet. “I was going to move away from my family, I never went to school in my life, and now I was going to live in New York City with all these other kids and go to a boarding school?” It was, she says, “this really big moment when I knew I had to brave.”⠀ ⠀
At a recent @BalletInCity master class in Washington, D.C., Lovette encouraged young ballet students to practice being brave, too. “What’s the worst that can happen,” she asked, “you fall on the floor?”⠀ ⠀
And yet, at 25 Lovette admits that her bravery is still very much a work in progress. “I don’t know if you ever really know when you get brave,” she explains. And while she’s still afraid of heights, she’s no longer afraid of falling in class, or on stage. “I get over falling very easily now,” she says. “I’m like, that’s OK: I went for it.”⠀ ⠀
-Chloe Angyal for @Huffington Post // Photo: Alexis Ziemski (@lenscapkid

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