Nessa

MET Bio:

With her long legs and equine, graceful body, you’d think she’d be a natural in ballet. “The ballet teacher always was so sure I would be a great dancer. She said I had the perfect body for ballet . . . but I was always more interested in the other girls in the class than the dance.”

She blushes. “I can dance and I can be graceful . . . but I’d get staring at the other girls doing those graceful moves and stretches and just forget what I was supposed to be doing and I’d just stand there and grin at them.”