My Story... like, actually.

This is not a short 'a star was born' story - I think in this niche it rarely is! So this is a "read when you have leisure time", "I-want-to-know-more-about-Em", stumble-along story.

I did not start dancing out of the womb, nor was I a child star, nor (honestly) was I ever classically trained. I am the product of a little choir girl turned show choir girl turned SDSU Theatre Major with a minor in Child Development turned youth musical theatre educator... who one day stumbled into Temecula Stampede in 2016 because I was 18 and my local-living friend convinced me it would be fun. 

 It was a blast of a time, though not something I would have thought would take over my life come October 2017.

That's when 21-year-old Emily met Incahoots Mission Valley's Wednesday college night. I went once with friends... Then when I realized it was on my way home from my show days at SeaWorld, I naturally started going nightly.

I was learning new dances every night. I was making new friends every night. I was falling in love every night (with a dance, a song, or a boy)... I was addicted.

Some time after going I wondered how to become an instructor there but never voiced my intentions aloud. 

One Tuesday evening in Spring of 2018 I was roaming around Pacific Beach...

Do you know where this is going?

Well, some months later I recognized an old college theatre friend wearing a uniform - she convinced me to apply as a dancer. Apparently they weren't hiring dancers, they were hiring instructors. A couple auditions later and I'd found myself hired at the biggest honkytonk nightclub in San Diego as a host/instructor - if you didn't name it already, it's Moonshine Flats/Beach. 

Fast-forward to COVID and everyone losing their job >

Fast-forward to taking private clients only because a friend had referred me without asking me first >

Fast-forward to auditioning and being rejected from coming back to Moonshine >

Fast-forward to submitting my official DBA >

And now, after starting instruction at 4 new venues in the last couple years and being invited as a guest instructor for places like Stampede Temecula and Renegade Country, I can say I'm exactly where I'm meant to be.