What My Teacher Taught Me: Joffrey Ballet’s Princess Reid on Laurie Picinich-Byrd
The summer after I turned 7, I started taking ballet lessons from Laurie Picinich-Byrd at The Florida Ballet at Jacksonville. After my first summer intensive, Miss Byrd called my mom into a meeting to tell her she didn’t think I wanted to be there. “She talks too much and was a distraction to the other […]