Education and Early Career
Ramasar got his performing start at TADA! Youth Theater. The Artistic and Executive Director of TADA!, Janine Nina Trevens, directed him in his first musicals, Prop Shop and Sleepover. His first dance lesson at the Henry Street Settlement House's Abrons Arts Center in 1993. He commuted by subway from his home in the South Bronx to the Lower East Side almost daily to go to dance lessons, starting at age 10. As a "low-income youth," this one of the few opportuntities he had "to achieve artistic dreams...."
He studied at the School of American Ballet (SAB) starting in 1993. He also studied at the American Ballet Theatre Summer Program and The Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet.
Read more about this topic: Amar Ramasar
Famous quotes containing the words education, early and/or career:
“Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.”
—Yolanda Moses (b. 1946)
“Three early risings make an extra day.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”
—Jessie Bernard (20th century)