By Di-Linh Hoang
Dalila Baied didn’t start dancing when she was 12 years old. She said she took hip hop and jazz classes, and only began taking dancing seriously when she was 17. “I want to be a dancer,” she said. “I don’t care if I’m not a ballerina or I didn’t start at four years old.”
A December 2014 graduate in psychology and dance, Baied has danced professionally since she graduated at the Santa Fe Opera, and she recently traveled to Austria to work with a dance company.
Baied recently became a certified yoga instructor as well. She began doing yoga as a workout while already in dancing.
“Yoga classes came pretty easy to me since I was already flexible and it was an asset to my dance training,” she said. Baied said she wants to get a master’s degree in psychology later in life, and she plans to continue dancing in the meantime.
“I know I love to dance,” she said. “Movement is something I can’t live without.”
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