just seventeen years of age she's landed a coveted place at russia's bolshoi ballet academy she spent most of her young life working towards that goal training for several hours a day. it's just everything to me i really enjoy and it's what i want to you. rachel grew up in gateshead a town in the northeast of england she knew she wanted to become a ballerina at the age of six and her parents helped her to realize her dream when their living room grew too small for her to practice or pirouettes simply ase they turned their garage into a ballet studio they even hired a private instructor who focused exclusively on rachel's nutritional needs and muscle development in such a disk. and it's like this is so. so. says the bolshoi is among the world's oldest and most famous classical ballet companies rachel's fifteen minute video application was so convincing that the jury accepted her into the academy straight away without an interview that rarely happens. now four years of training a wager and possibly an international career many graduates of the bolshoi ballet academy have gone on to beco