Matilde de Solís-Beaumont y Martínez-Camposįernando Juan Fitz-James Stuart y de Solís, 17th Duke of Huéscar, GE (born 14 September 1990), is a Spanish aristocrat. … Once you work at it and achieve it, it’s so satisfying.Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 19th Duke of Alba “It’s such a hard activity, but it’s also so rewarding. “It’s such a difficult thing to do,” she says. Solis says she loves everything about ballet. It’s important to get all the nutrients you need.” You need food to build muscle and have energy. While we might think of ballerinas as people who eat very little, that’s not the case, she says. Good training to strengthen her body is important, as well as diet. “You have to have strength and everything you need to be able to do that. “You have to have a good foundation to start pointe,” she says. It took some time to get comfortable with pointe, which she started when she was 12. In two weeks, she’ll be able to start dancing in ballet flats, and in three weeks, she hopes to be back in pointe shoes. She’s in Austin recovering from foot surgery. Her favorite things to perform are jumps. She’s been told to be who she is, and there are people like her who are diverse and successful. “It’s amazing, but it can be difficult to know that’s how it is now.”
“You can tell that a lot of companies are trying to make their corps more diverse,” she says. At her school, she says, about 35 percent of the students are not white. Her father is from Belize, and her mother is multiracial, including European and African-American. If she is accepted into a company, she plans to take online college courses while dancing.
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“It’s tough, for sure,” she says of the process to become a professional ballerina. When she’s 18, she can audition for an apprenticeship with a company for a year, and if that goes well, she will be asked to join that company’s corps or she’ll have to find another spot in a different company or head to college. She also takes Pilates classes to strengthen her body. Now she lives in the dormitory, takes two or three 90-minute ballet classes a day and does online academic work in between. “It’s weird, but I’ve definitely grown accustomed to not having my parents around,” she says. Leaving home meant that her parents - her mother is a lawyer and her father owns a juice store in Belize - couldn’t follow her.
“I knew I needed to step up the ladder,” she says. She knew she needed to take that next step and go to places where she could train for a career. “There’s more that I could have been doing elsewhere.” “For me, I felt like I had reached a point where I wasn’t improving as much as I wanted to,” she says. It was a tough decision to leave Austin and her family, including twin sister Isabella, also a dancer. “I thought it looked really good at first, but I didn’t know what to expect,” she says. “Kid Stew” interviewed her when she was still in Miami. She left home in February 2017 to first train at the Miami City Ballet School, and then last summer found her way to the School of American Ballet.Įven though she’s used to watching herself in the mirror when she dances, it was weird to see herself on television, she says. Solis now is studying ballet as a student at the School of American Ballet in New York City. Her episode premiered earlier this month and will re-air June 30. The Austin teen recently was featured on the new PBS Kids show “Kid Stew,” which is about kids, for kids and made by kids. Matilda Solis, 15, started dancing with Ballet Austin when she was 9.
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