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Fisher Iseminger leads the Cathedral Little Wave dance camp Wednesday in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)

Fisher Iseminger separates the younger dancers into groups with their leaders from the Cathedral dance team Wednesday during the Cathedral Little Wave dance camp Wednesday in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)

Dancers in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade volunteer for a competition Wednesday during the Cathedral Little Wave dance camp Wednesday lead by the Cathedral High School dance team in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)

Dance team leaders and dancers play a game of "Little Sally Walker" to warm up for their dance routines Wednesday during the Cathedral Little Wave dance camp Wednesday in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)

Harper Carter sits underneath the American Flag while watching other 3rd, 4th and 5th graders practice their dance routines Wednesday during the Cathedral Little Wave dance camp Wednesday in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)

NATCHEZ — Fisher Iseminger is captain of Cathedral High School’s dance team, and it is a position she said she has worked most of her life to achieve.

Before Fisher could walk, she was in dance classes.

“I attended my first UDA dance camp at 2 weeks old with my mom and have been dancing ever since,” said Fisher, now a 16-year-old junior at Cathedral.

Fisher said she started dancing with the Natchez Ballet Academy when she was only 2-and-a-half years old.

Dance is in her blood, Fisher said. Her grandmother founded the Emerald Tide Dance Team at Cathedral in the 1990-1991 school year and 9 years ago her mother, Paige Iseminger, along with Robyn Gregg, who serve as the dance team’s coaches/sponsors, brought the dance team back to the school after it had lapsed.

“I have gotten so much closer to my mom through dance,” Fisher said. “That’s our thing together is dance. We’re always talking about dance. She is always watching me dance, and I just am so glad she is my coach.”

Fisher said she started going to dance camps with her mom and the high school dance team when she was in the third grade and would sign up as a camper to go and learn all she could from the older dancers.

Fisher said she even tried out for “Junior High All American” in the third grade, a dance competition that most students don’t try out for until they are in sixth or seventh grade.

“I’ve always just been able to be relaxed in dance,” Fisher said. “It is always kind of like my place to go. I can just do dance and not think about anything else.”

This week, Fisher is passing on her knowledge of dance to younger dancers at the Emerald Tied Little Wave Camp.

Dancers enrolled are as young as Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 and learn different routines from the Cathedral High School dance team, which they will perform with on Thursday.

“All of my life, I have looked up to all of the older girls at ballet and on my mom’s dance team,” Fisher said. “Now I hope to be that same role model for many of the younger dancers.”

Fisher said she would continue to work hard and improve her dance skills in hopes of continuing her dance career after high school.

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