Perseverance, courage and determination.

Keep those traits in mind if you want to become a professional dancer, according to “So You Think You Can Dance” winner Lauren Froderman.

She visited Columbus on Tuesday to teach master classes at Performance Dance Centre.

“Know that dance comes hand-in-hand with failure,” Froderman said in a Ledger-Enquirer interview after one of her classes. “You’re going to get rejected over and over and over again and then there’s going to be that one ‘yes.’”

Froderman, 19, won the seventh season of the Fox reality TV dance competition. She came on the show as a contemporary jazz dancer from Arizona.

While teaching, Froderman emphasized the importance of self-confidence and individuality.

“Don’t do what you think I want to see,” she told the young women in a class. “I’m one of the people that likes to see people dancing, not carbon copies of myself dancing.”

Froderman said that since she won “So You Think You Can Dance,” she’s stayed busy teaching and performing. She’ll attend Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in the fall.

Froderman encouraged fans to watch “So You Think You Can Dance,” noting, “cool people are becoming all-stars -- my friends, um, maybe myself.” Then, she winked at our interview camera.

All-stars are previous “So You Think You Can Dance” contestants who dance with current contestants on the show.

Carrie Paris, artistic director of Performance Dance Centre, said Froderman is the second guest instructor the studio has had this summer.

“I think it’s nice to have someone come into the studio that can inspire the girls,” Paris said. “It’s pumped them up, it’s made them better dancers.”

Sam Moseley, one of the young women in Froderman’s Tuesday classes, said the dancer is as relatable in real life as she appeared on the show.

“She’s easy to get along with,” said Moseley, 14, of Columbus.