Hi. I’m Dina. I figured I’d just dive right into my life’s story. Well, part of it, anyway. The work stuff. And there is a reason for this, I promise.
I was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. When I was seven years old, we moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At 11, I got taken to my first street jazz dance class. I was terrible at it, but I told my parents that night that I was going to become a professional dancer, and they believed me. I was dancing in the professional company a year later.
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I still see the people I grew up dancing with to this day. They’re my family. At 15, we moved to Beirut, and I was convinced my life was ruined forever. (It wasn’t.) But I didn’t have the dance company anymore, so that’s when I started acting. A year later, however, we we’re back in Dubai because war broke out in Lebanon. I jumped right back into the dance company, but now I had a new passion, so when it came time to apply for college, I decided to audition for musical theater programs instead of choosing just acting or just dancing. Unfortunately, I didn’t consider two very important
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