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The saying goes that if a butterfly flaps its wings in New Zealand, a tornado could occur in Texas. When the butterfly in question, Amy Fote, danced up a storm as Cio-Cio San in Stanton Welch's story ballet Madame Butterfly, the weather didn't change, but the entire trajectory of her career did.
Steven Woodgate, a ballet master at Houston Ballet, spotted her gifts in 2004 while setting Welch's piece on the Royal New Zealand Ballet, where Fote was guesting. Fote put her heart and soul into the role, researching every detail of the story and looking for references in her own life to connect to the betrayed bride's dilemma. Shortly afterward she was invited to visit Houston Ballet, and before long, HB artistic director Stanton Welch offered her a first soloist position. "When that door opened for me I knew I had to walk through it," says Fote about the decision to leave a 14-year career with the Milwaukee Ballet.
At 33, an age when many ballerinas are winding down, Fote packed all that could fit into her Audi and headed to Texas. "I had fully intended to spend my entire career at Milwaukee Ballet. I wasn't looking for a change," remembers Fote. "But then again I didn't want to wonder what if I never took the risk." Fote's family urged her to go for it, knowing they would be seeing a lot less of...
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