Laredo dancer resets with family after COVID-19 costs her overseas opportunity
July 18, 2021
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After seeing the scholarship opportunity of a lifetime fade away due to the pandemic, Sylvia Mariana Perales has found success in Texas with the help of her family.
Perales, a 15-year-old dancer from Saltillo, Coahuila, has excelled in several international events such as the Youth American Grand Prix in 2018 in New York City. She won first place in the National Contest for Ballet Youth and Adolescents in Mexico City in 2019 to earn scholarships for schools like the Houston Ballet School.
Later that year, she participated in the International Festival of Ballet Dance in Veracruz, Mexico. Her performance earned her more offers from schools in Chicago and Houston along with the Ballettschule Theater Basel in Switzerland. Perales was going to attend the school in Switzerland, but the pandemic got in the way.