Hello!
My name is Richard Chen See, and I took my first ballet class at the age of seven in Kingston, Jamaica, where I grew up. Separately one might think of Kingston NY, or Jamaica in Queens, but I am talking about the island in the West Indies. I went on to train professionally in ballet in England, apprenticing at Northern Ballet Theatre for my first professional job... "long, long ago, and very far away". Eventually I would spend fifteen years as a dance for Paul Taylor in his company after stints with various dance and musical theater productions as well as with the Californian companies Oakland Ballet Company and ODC Dance Company.
Today, I am the director of licensing for Paul Taylor's choreographic works, but this does not mean I haven't had other careers or jobs. I have been an executive assistant in sales management for The North Face (outdoor clothing company), and a kayaking coach/guide for Sea Trek in Sausalito, CA as well as Manhattan Kayak Company right here in NYC. I have taught different disciplines of dance and fitness for most of my life, but ballet has often been an anchor for me, as it is the first physical language I learned, and one whose basic principals have always served me well in other physical disciplines.
Dancing has not been a solo endeavor for me. It has been a winding path of connecting to others and the world where so many differences might otherwise have been barriers.
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