![]() But her dance past continued to play a role: “My dance career has taught me important life lessons and life skills, like the importance of working as a group and being professional, and being able to take criticism,” Hytes says. So, after four seasons, she left the company to focus full-time on drag. But having to be slapstick funny-a hallmark of the company-wasn’t exactly her “thing.” And at that point in her career, her passion for dance was withering. Hytes moved to New York City to dance with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male-presenting ballet troupe that performs on pointe, and in drag. “I just had no interest in doing a double cabriolet or all the male stuff,” she says. ![]() But after two years with the company, Hytes found the job wasn’t fulfilling. He was looking to see if she’d play a lead role in a ballet he was mounting in South Africa, and, later, Dantzig helped Hytes secure a full-time contract with C ape Town City Ballet. Just two weeks in, Hytes got a call from dance pioneer Rudi van Dantzig, who’d taken notice of her while teaching at Canada’s National Ballet School. She trained at the school from grades 10 through 12, and an additional two years after that, before moving to Germany to study at the School of the Hamburg Ballet. “She didn’t even show up to audition,” Hytes remembers. “I noticed very quickly that I had a good facility for it.” A year later, while attending a high school arts program, a friend asked Hytes to audition with her for a summer session at Canada’s National Ballet School. “I found dance a little bit later in life,” Hytes says, who took her first dance class in the eighth grade. A post shared by Brooke Lynn Hytes might know drag artist Brooke Lynn Hytes from watching her compete-and dance on pointe-on season 11 of “RPDR.” Or perhaps you know her as the main judge on the spinoff series, “Canada’s Drag Race.” But did you know Hytes had a full-fledged dance performance career before entering the world of drag?
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