Ruby Graham is 15 years old from Rockwall, Texas. This is her first season at Hathaway Academy of Ballet and she is a Senior Company member of Collin County Ballet Theatre. Ruby started ballet at 21 and trained with Sharon Steele at Harmonic Motion School of Classical Ballet for 13 years. For the last two summers Ruby attended 6 week summer intensives with The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. In 2022, she attended ABT’s virtual summer intensive and coaching with Marina Medvetskaya formerly of St. Petersburg, Russia. Ruby has competed at YAGP in several locations including Houston, Dallas, Nashville and Indianapolis. In 2022, she was named top 12 small ensemble in Dallas. For the last 3 years Ruby designed her costumes for competition. Outside of dance, Ruby enjoys fashion design where she received first place at FCCLA Fashion Design regional and state competitions as a freshman.

Most recently, Ruby was selected as a Nikolay Market Influencer on behalf of J’ai La Pointe. Currently she wears 3007 Pros and loves her Nikolay pointe shoes and apparel. She plans to pursue dance and fashion design in the future.