I was born in New York, NY, where I began my ballet training at age eight with the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City I performed in numerous children's ballet including 4 years in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. I also performed in children’s dancing roles with the New York City Opera starting at the age of 8 and it was during one of those performances that I knew what I wanted to do with my life, dance.

I became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in the fall of 1991 and was invited to join the company as a member of the corps de ballet in the spring of 1992. In the spring of 1999, I was promoted to the rank of soloist. Along with numerous corps de ballet roles, I danced soloist and principal parts in many George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins ballets. I was chosen by Jerome Robbins for my first principal part in 1992 as green girl in Dances at a Gathering. I worked closely with Mr. Robbins in several ballets including  2&3 Part inventions, Brandenburg Concerto, West Side Story Suite, Fancy Free, Goldberg Variations, and Interplay and went on to dance principal roles in In The Night, I’m Old Fashioned and Spring in The Four Seasons. I danced as well many principal roles in Balanchine’s Apollo, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Concerto Barocco, Copelia, Emeralds, Divertimento No. 15, The Nutcracker(Dew Drop, Marzipan, Spanish), Scotch Symphony, Symphony in Three movements, Symphony in C, Raymonda Variations, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2, Brahms-Shoenberg Quartet, Western Symphony, Vienna Waltzes, and Who Cares?. I danced roles in Peter Martin’s The Waltz Project, Fearful Symmetries The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and Jazz -Six Syncopated Movements. Of course there were many other incredible choreographers I worked with including Mellissa Barak, Christopher Wheeldon and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, to name a few.

     After 15 years with the New York City Ballet, I retired and started my new adventure, motherhood. I am not going to write my book here but many things happened a long the way and I ended up in Miami with four children, three of which are triplets. It truly has been an adventure. I started teaching while I was still in the company at the School of the Arts at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, NY. In between my first child and triplet pregnancy, I developed an after school creative movement class for ages 3-10 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Coconut Grove, FL, where my daughter was attending. I focused on music interpretation and taught some basic ballet/dance vocabulary. After having my triplets, l did a little coaching of routines and teaching ballet to the gymnastics team that my daughter was on. Once pandemic lifted and my triplets were now older, I started teaching privates in my home studio, complete with a sprung floor and marley. My students have attended the School of American Ballet summer programs and Miami City Ballet School. I have taught at the Miami City Ballet School, the Mandelstam School and I teach at a ballet summer intensive called Belvoir Ballet at the fine arts camp Belvoir Terrace in Lenox, MA. 

   I love teaching what I know and imparting my knowledge to aspiring dancers. I believe in positivity, proper technique and the importance of the expressive aspect of ballet.