When Hannah Rollins, 10, was 2 years old, she began her dancing career. Her first performing partner was Barney the dinosaur.
Donning a cap and cane in her living room, Hannah began acting out her own choreography during a 30-minute children’s video, “Barney in Concert.”
Her parents, Chad and Tara Rollins, said it was clear even then she had artistic talent.
“We’d have the video on, and she’d be doing the show, and we’d video her,” Tara Rollins said. “Instead of watching the Barney video after that, she’d want to watch ‘Hannah in Concert.’ “
Later that year, the Rollinses signed their daughter up for a jazz dance class at a studio near their home in Kimball, Tenn. Since then, she and her sister, Emily, 7, have become heavily involved in a variety of dance styles, from hip-hop to tap.