Janette Manrara

And then my boss at the bank called me.

She goes, now I know you've gone on and become this dance superstar, but your job is here and it's waiting for you and we'd love to have you back if you'd like to come back.

And that was such a hard decision to make because it was letting go of stability, letting go of consistency to just go off on a whim and just see what happened.

So I had saved all my money from the tour and I looked at my parents for advice.

And my parents have always been dreamers.

You have to remember they were immigrants who left their country to dream of a better life.

So they have this very...

Beautiful vision of what life should be in terms of following your dreams and not letting them go.

Yeah.

And they just said, they said, you will regret every single day of your life if you don't try now.

The bank's not going to go anywhere.

You can work at the bank all of your life.

Yeah, you've got that experience.

But your experience now as a dancer and you've got to jump on the train while it's hot now.

Yeah, go.

So I did.

From the age of 24, which is when I moved to L.A., to now, I just look back and I go, my God, what a ride.

It's just been incredible, yeah.

Yes.

So I auditioned for Burn the Floor while the show was on Broadway in New York City.