"When I am dancing and choreographing, I am telling a story. So therefore, every dance step I do is plot-oriented, and it's always about pushing the plot forward."
A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Stroman began taking dance lessons when she was five. She once told Hilary Ostlere in Dance Magazine, "I always wanted to be a choreographer even when I was so little I hardly knew what the word meant." Her father sold instruments and appliances by day, and was also a self-taught musician at home, building in his daughter a love of show tunes. Stroman recalled sitting under the grand piano as he pounded out show tunes, standards, and contemporary hits. "All our family--Mom, Dad, my brother and sister--have music in us, and when I listened to those tunes I visualized the music and saw people dancing," she noted to Ostlere.
Early on, Stroman's parents recognized her musical ability and her dancing talent. When she was five, they sent their daughter to the Anna Marie Dance Studio in Wilmington, and every Saturday they would encourage her by turning on American Bandstand. Another and vital encouragement came from old films featuring dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, films that would influence Stroman's style later in her life.
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