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country winter, was organized two years ago and gave a premier Rappahannock performance of another original production last year. While Sally’s dancers are beginners, she’s the consummate professional. She started dancing when she was only four years old after her parents founded a private school in Washington, D.C., as an alternative to traditional public education. The school had only two teachers—one a painter and the other a dancer. “So we painted in the morning, danced in the afternoon” and stuck reading, writing and arithmetic in wherever the three R’s fit, she recalled. There was a heavy emphasis on the arts at the little private school and the curriculum revolved around the belief that everyone has a creative potential.

"I just kept going after that and became really interested around eleven,” she continued. Sally attended traditional schools in modern dance but now feels they are more of a hindrance than a help. Traditional training "establishes movement habits that are an impediment to developing your own style,” she maintained, adding that she was just beginning to get at some of her own natural talents.

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