Confession: My name is Alison and I am a dance mom.
The first time I saw Jesse perform he was nine years old in a group tap number. When he appeared on stage, I remember what a thrill it was to see him up there, but also how cute they all were, how much fun they were having and how much they all obviously enjoyed being in the spotlight.

That was the moment Alison realized she was a dance mom. Her son Jesse's dance career would take him from a local dance school in Saskatoon--a small city in the middle of the Saskatchewan prairie--to Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and from there to Germany, where he currently dances with the Stuttgarter Ballett. To parent a dancer to an elite level is a unique and challenging journey as well as an incredibly rewarding experience.

Alison Montgomery is a Saskatoon high school visual arts teacher, a landscape artist and a musician. But first and always most importantly, she is a devoted mom to her two sons, Chris and Jesse. With her youngest son Jesse, Alison found herself in a unique and challenging role as the parent of a child with an exceptional interest and a passion to succeed. Confessions of a Dance Mom, Alison's second non-fiction book, is her account of what she and her husband experienced as parents while their son Jesse worked towards becoming a professional ballet dancer. Alison's first book, Finding Christopher: A Journal of Grief, Love & Faith, was published in 2010 and is a personal reflection on surviving the sudden and tragic loss of her 24-year-old son in September 2001. Alison and her husband Tom live in Saskatoon.

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