About Me

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My name is Louisa Forney and I am an 18-year-old Mexican-American, student at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. I started ballet, along with tap, at the age of 2 in preschool. After preschool, I told my mom I wanted to keep dancing ballet- that is when I first started at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy. When I first started there, they had only been open a few months and had done one performance, Peter Pan. After the show, they had a one week break for the dancers to rest. When the classes started up again, I started. My first performance with DKCBA, when I was 6 years old, was the Nutcracker. Ten years later, I had performed over 30 Nutcrackers, many spring recitals, and quite a few OCBT performances. With DKCBA, I have been able to perform George Balanchine pieces such as Serenade and Who Cares?. Through competitions and master classes, I have had the opportunity to take classes with great teachers such as Anna Tikhomirova, Artem Ovcharenko, Misty Copeland, Larissa Saveliev, Gennadi Saveliev, Michelle Gifford, Natalya Lushina-Ziegler, and Liuba Kozereva Paterson. In 2015, I performed my last show with DKCBA, the Nutcracker, before leaving to Russia. After doing the 2014 Bolshoi Ballet Academy Intensive in Connecticut and the 2015 one in New York, I was accepted into the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. On January 31, at age 15, I landed in Moscow. The teachers I have had in the Academy include Gusev Georgiy Konstantinovich, Marianne Maksimovna, Kovalenko Lyudmila Vasilevna, Tamara Mihaylovna, Sergeeva Nika Vyacheslavovna, Tolstaya Nina Mihaylovna, Mirza Olga Antonovna, and Kazeeva Evgeniya Sergeevna. Other teachers from the Academy I've had classes with through the summer intensive include Ryzhakov Ilya Mikhailovich, Ivanova Svetlana Anatolevna, Kulikova Vera Nikolaevna, and Revich Natalya Igorevna.

As far as academic schooling goes, I am currently a fully online student with Brigham Young University. In the 2017-2018 school year, I will graduate from Brigham Young University (high school) with honours through the National Society of High School Scholars and Honor Society. My favourite subjects are algebra and astronomy. When I attended regular high school for freshman and half of sophomore year, my favourite class was photography. Before leaving for Russia, I also enjoyed participating in OC Fashion Week shows. I modelled for Coral Castillo, Berenice Gonzalez, Katherine Brown, KD Luxe Jewlery, and other various designers. I have also danced with DKCBA at OC Fashion Week and LA Style Week events. Currently I have a guinea pig, Boo, and a very loud cockatiel, Bobbie. In the past, I also had a Korean Jindo, a frog, two mice, a betta fish, and two other cockatiels. I have been CPR certified since January 20, 2018, and currently I am working on my FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) certification. Why? Because, why not?!
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