Born in Kansas City, Kansas, Kamila Cardenas was raised in a diverse household. The product of a union between her Venezuelan father and her mother who hails from Kansas, Kamila remembers embracing her multiplicity through dance. In 2000 she became a ballroom dance instructor, forming what would soon prove to be a passionate commitment to the art of dance. Buoyed by the intrinsic reward she found successfully transforming students with virtually no knowledge of ballroom dance, Kamila decided to broaden her dance horizons. She left the ballroom world to actively pursue other forms of dance: classical ballet, jazz, modern, lyrical, and hip hop, even studying belly dancing on her own.
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