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JESSIE WILLIAMS By Michael Daks Photo Credit Michael Daks
Daks. Why don’t we talk a little bit about how you got started as a dancer? I started as a photographer when I was 16, which is how old you are now, but you must have started when you were 5 or even earlier? JW. I started when I was 3 at a local dance school. You went just to have fun and dancing was your hobby, but I just fell in love with it! My mom took me, but she didn’t know anything about dancing because she’s got two left feet! It was my Nana who put me into dancing and paid for my classes. I was never really a natural dancer. I had to work so hard for it. Nothing really came easy. I would go and do trampolining, gymnastics, and running. I used to run 800 metres and I could just run that like it was nothing, but when I went to dance class it challenged me, it wasn’t easy so I chose that over running because it was harder!
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