#SoCaltech: Yu Yu Phua
Jon Nalick
“My interest in ballet started with the show Gilmore Girls . The main character, Rory, lives in a town with a ballet studio named Miss Patty’s School of Ballet. My parents had asked me if I was interested in learning ballet when I was younger, but I was not. Seeing Miss Patty’s School on Gilmore Girls seven years later, I asked them to let me try it out. I was 14, which is seen as very late for ballet, but I’ve been dancing since then. Having to move across the Pacific Ocean to attend graduate s