Hannah Finds Her Voice - Softcover

Sturm, Robin Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193535518X ISBN 13: 9781935355182

Publisher: GraceNote Press, 2016

Synopsis

Follow Hannah's journey as she follows her dream of becoming a dancer!Hannah knows she is different from the other kids at school, but when she discovers ballet, she decides to pursue her dream of dancing just like the others!Based on a true story and illustrated with beautiful images of Hannah and the dancers that inspired her to fulfill her dreams.A little girl named Hannah sat on her bed one day;She looked outside the window watching other children play.She watched them running, jumping high, around and ‘round they’d runShe tapped the glass and waved hello to join in on the fun.But no one looked or smiled back, Hannah didn’t understand; She loved to laugh and hug her friends, but they had other plans.

About this title

About the Author

Robin Conrad Sturm began her ballet training at seven and a half years of age with Mary Day, and went on to become a graduate of the Academy of the Washington School of the Ballet. She was a full-scholarship student at the American Ballet Theatre School and the School of American Ballet in New York. She was a founding member of the Washington Ballet, when it became a professional company, and rose to a principal dancer there until the birth of her first child. Ms. Sturm is currently a principal dancer and Co-Director of the Asaph Dance Ensemble, which has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and various other theaters in the Washington, D.C. area. She was also a soloist in Jerome Hines’s opera, I Am the Way, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Ms. Sturm was an adjunct instructor in the dance department of the American University in Washington, D.C. and was the Artistic Director and principal ballet teacher of the Northern Virginia Dance Academy, as well as a former teacher at the Washington School of the Ballet. Ms. Sturm and her husband, Bob, have three grown children, Jeremy, Rebekah, and Samantha. They live in Manassas, Virginia, where they co-direct the Asaph Dance Ensemble.

Edition details

• Publisher: GraceNote Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193535518X
• ISBN 13: 9781935355182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 34