About The Author
Hello Everyone and welcome to the Elemental Studios blog! My name is Coral Barnes, I am the author and writer of this blog. I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself to you all, so I hope you enjoy my biography as well as some other fun posts that I will be including on the blog as well. I am an Austin, Texas native that moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado on December 1st, 2022. I took ballet as a kid for a few years, doing it during my elementary school years, but eventually quit that to do tumbling gymnastics. I got interested in dance again during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, and during this time, I met my close friend and dance mentor, Haley Sikes, who I had met at a K-pop Club night event who encouraged and motivated me to take hip-hop classes with her at Balance Dance Studios and ElectrikCity Dance Movement. My first hip-hop class was on March 15th, 2020, it was Intermediate/Advanced at the time and I mainly went for my friend Haley since it was her cl...