In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.

To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that they've been on the air. People who didn't know anything about dance and aren't going to go to the theater are learning about it, even if it's ballroom and jazz, by just turning their television ono. They're building this audience that's advanced and educated enough to introduce them to ballet.

I want to share the ballet world with everyone.

I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.

Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.