Larisa Dahabi started out her dance journey at the tender age of four.  By the age of thirteen, she decided that dance ran through her veins and this would become her lifes dream.  It was then that she started her serious ballet training with Diana Turner Hauser from Academy of Ballet Arts who gently guided her and showed her the world of ballet.  At sixteen, she auditioned with School of American Ballet in New York City  and studied there for 2 years.  After high school, she joined the New Jersey Ballet and danced with the company for three years, performing in ballets such as Nutcracker, Carmina Burana, Graduation Ball, Donizetti,  just to name a few.  Feeling the need to experience more, she began a grand tour starting from Las Vegas, in Latino Royal 85.  When that contract was over, her dream lead her to the seas with Royal Caribbean on  The Song of America in Caribbean capers.  From there, a short stop in Curacoa, Netherland Antilles in a show called Touche.  Atlantic City was the next stop as a feature performer at Trump Plaza in Toast of the Town, a take-off from the old Ed Sullivan Show and another in Hot Flash Review in Wildwood, New Jersey, venturing yet to another area;  musical theatre.  She performed in My Fair Lady with the Michigan Opera Theatre where not only did she dance but now experienced singing and acting on stage.   After that, she studied acting and voice more intensely and got various acting positions in New York.  It was then that she met her husband and started her family.   After eight years as office manager with a growing medical practice, she took a break from the work force to have her third child and settled here in the Charleston area, ready to begin a new path and give a little of what she fell in love with at four, back to the community as owner and instructor of a dance studio Mount Pleasant School of Performing Arts, located at National Crossing in Mount Pleasant.