q&a
Name: Naïma Abt
Agency: M4 Models (Hamburg)
Hometown: Berlin
Instagram: @Naima_Diaby
What is one thing people may be surprised to find out about you?
I am obsessed with watching the reality tv show Dance Moms and I love the original cast. I was dancing hip hop before, but the show made me wanna start dancing jazz and modern dance as well. It definitely intensified my interest in dance!!!
What are you really good at?
Organization! I love planning everything out and I am good at time management! I like helping my friends when they don’t know how to organize something. But I know that sometimes, I have the tendency to over-think and organize some things! Lucky for me I have my friends who are usually stopping me from doing that. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy being spontaneous from time to time.
What were you like as a child?
I was independent at a really young age. I started going to school by myself in first grade and when my mom explained me something, she never had to repeat it twice. I had a really fast way of understanding. I also was really active and tried out a lot of sports, till I stayed with dancing. I started with kids hip hop at the age of 11 and four years ago until now, I am also dancing house and JML (jazz-modern-lyrical) in the studio Motionsberlin in Berlin Kreuzberg. One thing besides dance that was, and still is, really important for me, are my friends! I love seeing and hanging out with them!!!
What’s one subject you could talk about for at least 5 minutes?
I could talk about at least five minutes is my future plan for my future kids. I know exactly how they should look like, but more important how their week is going to be organized… when they go to dance classes or to their piano lessons and what other sports I want them to do, what languages I want them to learn and so on… Yes, I love planning everything out and I am a little bit crazy when it comes to that.
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Photography by Maiken Staak (@bagaak)
