Grace Emmeline Story
Grace Emmeline was twenty-one when she realized she did not want to pursue a professional ballet career. After years of not stopping to breathe, the pandemic forced her to actually pause and consider, “does ballet make me happy?” It took months to accept that it no longer did, at least not in the same manner in which it had prior. Her love for ballet had shifted from a driving passion to a warm appreciation, and she found herself feeling a loss of identity.
Grace Emmeline strongly desires to be an advocate for dance artists and work to protect them and their mental health using her knowledge of psychology. She wants most of all to help the dance world see that while there are many dancers in the workforce, they are still humans; they are not disposable and companies should work to keep dancers’ minds in as good of health as they do their bodies.
Grace Emmeline holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet from the University of Utah.