The young dancer from Nice has landed in Los Angeles with dreams in her head. And since then, the graduate in Applied Foreign Languages has radically changed her life in the City of Angels.
“ I started dancing in my room in Nice. I posted videos on social media. One day, two choreographers spotted me and I attended one of their workshops in Paris. Dana, one of the two choreographers advised me to move to Los Angeles Explains the young Frenchwoman. In the south of France, “ there are no opportunities, no auditions and no set structure for the dancers. In Paris, traditional dancers (classical, modern jazz, etc.) are in great demand because there are big academies like the Opera. But it is very hard to live thanks to the urban dances. So let’s go to America and its west coast.
Rebecca Sida-Boushib will find her stage name, Rebecca Rolfe, the English name of the native American heroine Pocahontas. ” I chose this name to symbolize my immigration », Says the dancer. She began her American adventure with a few appearances in music videos. But her dream is elsewhere: she wants to establish herself as a choreographer. She therefore decides to post her dances on social networks and to participate in numerous castings in order to build her network. She manages to catch the eye of producer Track Dilla. The latter will give him the responsibility of the choreography of a clip of one of the artists of his label. The return of singer Kirsten Collins has been very positive, “ she absolutely wanted to learn my choreography and impose it in the clip. It was my first project as a choreographer. “
Since then, the Franco-Moroccan chain of projects, she dances in clips, TV shows, films or in advertisements. Most recently, she participated in the advertising campaign of the haute couture brand The Royals Paris as movement coach. She also appeared in a Travis Scott or Roddy Rich music video, “The Box,” which has nearly 150 million views. The young woman’s dream is to work in fashion. She would like to ” convince a designer of [lui] give carte blanche to choreograph a fashion show. “
Moments of happiness and loneliness
If her project as a dancer is growing day by day, the coronavirus crisis has put a brake on the entire artistic industry (cinema, dance, music, etc.). The situation of intermittents changes according to their notoriety. Rebecca Rolfe becomes an ambassador for certain sports brands, which pay her to promote their articles on social networks. She is notably the ambassador of EleVen by Venus, the brand of tenniswoman Venus Williams. ” She sends me clothes, I take pictures and I post them. I advertise her and she pays me for it. I’m lucky to be able to count on that to bring in money right now, but this confinement was a slap in the face for me. “
Its next shooting is scheduled for the end of October. In the meantime, like many others, she is reminded of her fragile immigrant status, underlined by the COVID-19 crisis. The issuance of his visa is suspended due to the measures of the Trump administration. But if the situation prohibits her from going to France, except at the risk of not being able to return to the United States, she resigns herself: ” this is part of the rules to follow if you want to try your luck in the United States. “
