116:. The audition she completed to gain entrance to the school marked both her first audition and ballet class. During Green's second year of dance, she met respected Ailey alumni dancer Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell who was then actively dancing with the company. Green credits this meeting as pivotal and inspiring, as Fisher-Harrell was another woman of color from Baltimore. Fisher-Harrell encouraged Green and further introduced her to the world of professional dance. Green graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts in 2007. She continued her studies and went on to attend the Ailey/
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