Meet 26-year-old dancer and choreographer Allison Claire.

"I started dancing when I was two," she told BuzzFeed.

Allison, who lives in LA, dances full time.
"My mom asked my dad if she could sign me up for dance classes, and he told her 'no' because it was too expensive. But she signed me up anyway," she said.
"When I first moved to LA, I got a little discouraged because you go from being big fish in a little pond to a place where everyone's a big fish," she said. "But you have to be confident in yourself."
"It's not like I've never heard 'no' before," she said.
"None of these big dancers started getting work overnight."
"If a music video is casting for a school, they know that not everyone is going to be stick-thin with blue eyes," she said.
Her list of fave choreographers doesn't stop at one. "I love Brian Friedman, Hi-Hat, Fatima Robinson, and Tricia Miranda to name a few," she said.
"Dance is like therapy for me," she said. "It's the one place where you can throw yourself around a room and get applauded for it."
"You always have to remember that you have worth," she said.