After my exciting experience as "The Psychic" in Joseph Anderson's independent "Horror, Thriller, Romance" film "Grave Caller" I can't wait to take the year 2019 by storm. I'm already kicking diabetes "to the curb" and am determined to have more roles and projects of my own come to fruition. Happy with some new photos that show me looking a bit perkier after starting treatment for "Type 2 Diabetes." In fact I have a web show that just premiered called "Diabetic Belly Dancer" on YouTube hoping to help people who might be going through the same thing.
Johanna White was born in WV in 1927 to James and Lee White. From an early age her home was filled with music as her father was a dancer, singer and musician, along with his brother Roscoe, in the "White Family String Band." From her father she learned Appalachian and "soft shoe" type dance, plus waltzes, polkas, and "The Charleston." As a child of the "great depression," she was enchanted with images from Hollywood and found inspiration in Shirley Temple. Formal training in tap and acrobatic began at age seven with Alma Ellison Britt in Charleston. WV. A favorite dance she did in recital was a recreation of Shirley Temple's "In Our Little Wooden Shoes." (Johanna also suspected, but was not sure about her Roma Gypsy heritage, as her father also had a repertoire of Gypsy songs from a few different regions and her Aunt was passionate about and learned a tradition of fortune telling with cards from their Grandmother. Roma male
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