Gabrielle Richardson is from Norfolk, Virginia, a place where she has been lucky enough to enjoy a rich arts community for as long as she can remember. At age three, her parents saw her great affinity to musical and kinesthetic engagements and enrolled her in a ballet program. Throughout her schooling, Gabrielle attended Ballet Virginia International’s pre-professional ballet program, with some Horton Modern training, performing in their Nutcracker productions, various story ballets such as ​The Sleeping Beauty and The Twelve Dancing Princesses. ​In high school, Gabrielle attended the Governor’s School for the Arts, as a ballet major. While at the Governor’s School, she performed in the Winter and Spring productions which included original faculty works and story ballets such as​ La Bayadere​ and excerpts of ​Coppelia​; and in partnership with the Virginia Arts Festival, performed in Richmond Ballet’s ​The Nutcracker ​and alongside the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in ​Swan Lake. ​At the Governor’s School she continued a mixed repertoire of ballet techniques as well as an immersion in several modern codifications; Horton, Graham, Hawkins, and Taylor. She has participated in summer intensives with City Dance Conservatory, Richmond Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Paul Taylor Dance Company, as well as performing in the Regional and National High School Dance Festivals.  At UVA, Gabrielle has begun to take courses towards the dance minor program and has performed in the Fall Concert. Gabrielle hopes to continue to be engaged in various dance techniques and modes of artistic thinking and is very grateful for the honor of becoming a Miller Arts Scholar and part of the UVA Arts community.