sentences:  The home was described as poor.Her mother and maternal aunts where both active as dancers, and she was likely given her first training by them, and reportedly also performed with them during her childhood, though it is not confirmed where.Her father occasionally worked for the French theater, where she came to know Louis Gallodier, and she was enrolled as a student of the French ballet during her childhood, and made her debut in a ballet at the age of eight at the Confidencen on Ulriksdal Palace in 1768.