“TO me dance is everything. What I love about dance is that you're able to escape from reality, you become a different person, your spirit comes out and takes over.” When dance is everything there are no unsurmountable obstacles and fear only makes you try harder. Lillian Banks is still at the beginning of her story, but that beginning is already infused with triumphs.
Confidence has been Lillian Banks’s ally from the start. “My sisters and I would always perform in front of the family, singing songs and creating dance routines,” she recalls. “I would be leading them, telling them what to do, while they would be following behind me. I was always in the centre-front.”
In primary school, the young Lillian was part of the Dream Time Dancers, a community dance group for
