My athletic coordination was seen in early childhood dance performances. I never asked to study ballet. People saw me moving on stage and placed me in a class at the York, PA School of Ballet, where my instructor, Sherri Grim, regarded me as having pre-professional-level talent. She had me take class four days a week and put me on pointe, early, when I was nine. Then she suddenly stop teaching a couple of years later. She was so intent on me continuing with dance that she had my parents install a barre in our home. However, the only serious place to continue training was in Carlisle, at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Both of my parents worked full-time. Additionally, my Dad, a talented musician, wanted me to focus on the piano. I had started giving recitals in childhood. That was the only time my wonderful, nurturing father, Bud Rubin, intervened, wanting me to fulfill his professional music career for him — he was a professional-level musical talent — as other pros told him — but his overly self-effacing ways blocked his own musical career. Nevertheless, my innate athleticism and ballerina upbringing enable me to continue with dance and choreography decades later. Also — from my own proprioception and muscle memory — I never have to think about it — I can paint and draw other people in motion, accurately — in real-time.

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