Bailadora was created by three occasions that turned into momentous moments. The first was when my baby sister had asked me to help her choreograph a number for her high school’s Multicultural night. After teaching her the dance, we showed our family what we had so far and my three little cousins had asked me to teach it to them! During this time, I was just showing them the moves at my house when my auntie Bertina had asked me to perform for an event she was putting together called ‘Marianas Festival’ in Oregon. I had to come up with a name for her to put on the flyers, and so my mom and I started looking in our Chamorro-English Dictionary and my mom happened to stumble across ‘Bailadora’ which means Female dancer. There our name was created. What started out as just my sisters, cousins and I dancing in my living room has now flourished into what it is today. Today, we have 60+ dancers both female AND male, as well as drummers and musicians. We continue to work on our craft and have a great time learning and creating meaningful and long-lasting relationships.