Adalat omar biography examples

By Angela Lee

Dancing is life for Adalat Omar.

But that “life” almost came to an end when the classically-trained dancer left her native China and moved to Canada five years ago.

Unable to say much in English beyond “yes,” “no,” “thank you,” and “goodbye”, Adalat didn’t know where to begin to find an outlet for her art – the traditional Uyghur dance of the Turkic peoples in China’s northwestern Xin Jiang region.

While her immigrant friends took menial jobs to make ends meet, Adalat – who now goes by the name “Ada” – wanted only to dance.

A rigorous training

When Ada was 10, a talent scout came to her school in China and began plucking this child and that for the national arts institute.

Ada was taken away from her home and family, and until she graduated from the institute at the age of 16, was only allowed to return home twice a year.

“It was a huge institute,” recalls Ada. “There were over a thousand students – actors, musicians, artist