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The former BAZ company member on playing someone like herself in "Flesh and Bone"
Life has always taken Raychel Diane Weiner in unusual directions.
"I tend to go wherever the wind blows," she says. "I like to let things happen."
A lot is happening these days for Weiner, who has left the corps of Ballet Arizona to join the cast of "Flesh and Bone," a new original series about the ballet world that will run next year on the Starz Network. Weiner trained in Southern California with Charles Maple and Diane Lauridsen, at South Bay Ballet in Torrance. Her brother was a child actor and she often went on casting calls with him. His agent began representing her as well, and she ended up with several ads and children s book covers. While she always loved dance, she didn't focus on ballet until she was 15. "I don't know if I was ready before that to not be a normal teenager," Weiner says.
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