Oak Bay teen ballerina en pointe for dance career

Ballerina Mackennzie Mount is perfectly poised to pursue a career in dance.

The Oak Bay teen has been dancing as long as she can remember – she’s told it was age 4 – and left home for studies the first time when she was 10. Time spent away over the years includes prestigious summer intensives with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the National Ballet. The highest point though, as far as she’s concerned, was when an adjudicator for the recent B.C. Performing Arts festival told her if she continued her dedicated training, he’d have a job waiting for her in Poland.

“This showed me that hard work pays off, and if you set your mind to something that anything is possible,” she said. “Ballet is a life lesson really. You learn so much about yourself and how you can grow as a person.”

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