i was inspired to start printing new valley because at the time my co founder susan jaffe who had been a principal dancer with american valley theater and i decided that we wanted a company similar to the one in which we grew up and that was called marilyn hughes ballet and there was always a challenge in front of us there was always an opportunity to perform principal roles there was always somewhere to go within this company from the time we were very very young there was nothing similar to that in this area and that's how princeton new ballet came to be training is an extremely important for ganser isn't a ballet company if we are expecting them to do very difficult skills it would be like asking someone to write a novel without knowing the  a technique and then afterwards we could have either variations or one of the other crosses we take like jazz or modern or stretch i wish up in the morning and i'm normally pretty tired i make my way out the door to school but somehow when i get in the car to come here i kind of i wake up it's not in sync gratification by any means this is this is hard work for many years i mean classes really great opportunity to work for yourself try to focus on your technique in your artistry and not so much even on the teacher or others around you in class i'm sort of in the zone and i can practice  want to make and i not going to it's scary sometimes it's really exciting when we start new shows and everyone's really excited about their new characters and different things that they get to do but what i'm really looking for is their ability to convey their character through movement through gesture through face all expression not just technique i mean that really is what sets prince news valley apart our youngest dancers  the memorisation i'm in and you have to pick up choreography very quickly you have to be thinking of ten things at the same time you have to be thinking spatially you have to be thinking about the music rhythmically the sequence your personal space there's there's so many things going on and coming at you at any moment you're literally on your toes i don't know where else you would get those i just think it  makes for a fuller human experience you can see them on the side medicine or the i mean they learn so much just a lot of the other it's so important for young dancers have challenges forming opportunities class after a while gets monotonous and it's it's hard to keep yourself going but if you're working towards a goal like a performance it's just that much more to give you that much more of an incentive to keep going and prince is valid puts on these amazing productions and i feel like in some productions i get to like move in and out of scenes and just like kind of be on stage and be like really comfortable with that idea and like stage fright or things like that have never really met anything to me just because i've had so many opportunities to just take on different characters and different personalities and cast myself and test my limits once you're on stage you can feed off the audience  and it's amazing for me and it's about the audience and making them feel so you can't just dancing class every day and expect to improve your character development and as i was saying artistry when you're watching it and you see step three that you see line you might see beautiful feet beautiful extension when you're watching an artist artist makes you feel a story even if it's a ballet or contemporary music or anything with no story they can still somehow make it into a story and make you feel how they're feeling you can see their joy when they're performing you can see an intense passion for what they're doing my goal is to empower dancers right from the beginning to be artists i don't want to see a you decide to share with that one how you decide to share yourself and i think that that's one of the most amazing aspects of dance there's something that happened this early to the audience when they see that they don't know that there's but that's communicating that you are allies that you're a person and they they go there with you