[1] At age five, after her parents took her to see Swan Lake, she was sent to dance classes at Escuela de Danza Classica.
[1] Her parents had avoided sending her to the School of American Ballet after learning of hip injuries suffered by students there.
[1] Her repertory include classical ballets, and works by August Bournonville, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Lew Christensen, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and Renato Zanella.
The project lasted fourteen years, and the photographs were published in the 2015 book Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers.
She won the award again the following year with Joanna Berman and Julie Diana for Robbins' Dances at a Gathering.
[1][2] Then, in the San Francisco Ballet New Works Festival in 2008, she served as choreographer's assistant to Wheeldon again, while also helping company artistic director Helgi Tomasson.