As the lights dim and the music turns on, judges watch junior Simone Mishuris compete her ballroom piece in a sea of contestants. Mishuris grew up in the ballroom world where she started out with her brother, Ethan Mishuris. Now, Mishuris is currently training to compete and attend conventions this fall.
“My mother actually, she saw me dancing at a very young age at home when I was very young, and she’s like, we need to take her to dance,” Mishuris said. “And I guess they sort of took me to ballet first when I was three years old, and they saw me, and it wasn’t a right fit, because the teachers were not cooperating with me. And they sort of saw that other side that I had that was very like, into big performances and being in front of crowds, entertainment-wise.”
Mishuris began her career in ballroom at the age of four in Brooklyn, New York, which is where she grew up before she moved to Texas in her freshman year…