Word: abt
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...During that time, Weiss guest-performed with several companies in New York. Finally able to pay for her own pointe shoes, Anna's pirouettes caught the eye of American Ballet Theatre director Kevin McKenzie. "I was taking open classes in the evening at ABT," she says, "and I ended up getting along really well with the Ballet Mistress. She invited me to come take Company class in the morning. Kevin McKenzie would come in all the time and be like, ‘Who's that girl?', and that's how I ended up getting an audition." Networking holds...
...summer following her first audition at ABT, Weiss experienced a dramatic change in her professional dance aspirations. "I was getting over an injury," she recalls, "and sort of figuring out that ballet wasn't necessarily the world I wanted to be in. It was the ninth time I had been seriously injured—I'd had stress fractures, sprained ankles, bad knee problems that I knew I would be looking forward to during my career...