Clip: Strictly Ballet

Get to know the six hopeful dancers who are students and apprentices at Miami City Ballet School. They come from as far away as Russia and Brazil, but all of them have dreams of joining the prestigious company as professional dancers.

Welcome to Miami where the sand is hot and the competition is fierce. Meet Mayumi, a student at Miami City Ballet School and a company apprentice. For this 18-year-old, the stakes are high: She left her family and home in Brazil at age 14 to pursue her ultimate ballet dreams.

Ella Titus is not your typical high school student. With dreams of becoming a professional ballerina, Ella shows us a glimpse of her atypical world: she lives alone, attends regular high school for roughly an hour and a half a day, and spends most of her time dancing.

Valeriia Chaykina left Russia to train in America and adapt her classically trained technique to a modern, Western style of ballet. Now the pressure is on to find a job and stay in America as a professional dancer. Watch as she records her audition tape and receives a private invitation to audition for a major company.

Carlos Valdés and his family left everything behind in Cuba when they moved to America to support Carlos' pursuit of a professional ballet career. Then when Carlos got injured and could not dance for several months, his psychological fear of another injury became its own obstacle. See how he overcame that fear and grew stronger.

Ballet dancer Gustavo Pachecco describes the challenges of living away from his family in Brazil as he pursues his ballet dreams in Miami. Even though his parents and siblings are far away, he carries their energy, love, and support as he dances.

Step inside the costume shop at Miami City Ballet, where costume designer and director Haydée Morales and her team create hundreds of intricate, handmade outfits for the dancers at MCB and MCBS.

One of the missions at Miami City Ballet School is to offer promising students from countries around the world the chance to come to Miami to train with their elite company. See how their scholarships have completely transformed lives and inspired new generations of dancers to go after their dreams.

See how the dancers in the company at Miami City Ballet mentor and serve as important role models to the younger students in the school.

One of the most difficult periods of time in the life of a dancer (or any student) is transitioning from school to getting a full time job. See how different dancers find success and fulfillment after ballet school.

Dancer Valeriia Chaykina and her instructors at Miami City Ballet School demonstrate the differences between classical ballet technique and modern ballet more often seen in America and the West.

When a dancer or athlete gets injured, it can feel like the world is falling apart. See how dancers at Miami City Ballet School bounce back from injury and become better performers for it.

The dancers, instructors, and directors at Miami City Ballet School describe the innate artistic ability that makes one dancer stand out from the rest.

The students at Miami City Ballet School prepare for audition season and talk about what it takes to make an audition tape that catches the attention of company artistic directors.

The Miami City Ballet School dancers, who star in the second season of Strictly Ballet, did a fashion shoot for Teen Vogue's June/ July issue. Watch them react to seeing their magazine feature for the first time.

In order to get a visa to work in the United States as a professional dancer, Miami City Ballet School dancer Gustavo Pachecco had to travel back to Brazil to wait for the paperwork to go through. Unbeknownst to him and his family, Teen Vogue raised funds to help Gustavo come back to America to pursue his professional ballet dreams.