Dancing is actually the last thing Judy Smith ever imagined she would be doing. As a child and teenager, her passion was horses. She grew up riding through the Colorado Mountains and competing on the horseshow circuit in hunter/jumper classes. At age 17, Judy was in a car accident that drastically altered the course of her life. She spent the next several years sitting very still, being an alien in her own body, and trying to figure out what in the world she was going to do with the remainder of her time on Earth.
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