“I say that because I travel to dance conventions, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, LA, and I see that they have opportunities and stuff for scholarships…Saint Louis, we don’t get as much. I’m dancing, I’m trained under this choreographer right now his name is Anthony Reed Williams and he really helped me out he helped me out a lot…He was the one who gave us more experience to it out there and stuff. I’ve been to Texas before and their dance convention, and it was pretty nice…and connections everywhere. Once you get connections, that’s when it really start clocking in and you start getting call-ins and stuff. I just really feel like I have that feeling that confident feeling that I want to become a star. I’ve always been like that, but yeah I want to become my own artist.” -Taniya Donnell, senior