"I applied for Cirque du Soleil’s September 2009 Las Vegas auditions apprehensively. My biggest fear was that I may do myself an injustice, as up to that point their opinion of me had been formed through carefully screened and edited videos I had sent them." (…)

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It's an exciting moment for my life and career on a cold January night in Las Vegas. I'm lowering from the ceiling on a trapeze bar with full makeup that took me almost an hour to complete and the most beautiful costume I have ever worn fitting my body perfectly. I hardly notice the constricting harness around my hips as I look at the amazed people below through the colorful lights and loud, but now very familiar music. (...)

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