Sometimes I wonder how I found dance. Or maybe a better question is how dance found me. I'm not talking about the beginning tap and ballet classes my mom put me in as a 4 yr old but the part of dance that completely consumes me. The part that has genuinely made me the person I am today. How did I get so lucky to find something that fulfills me like nothing else can. Being a dancer is who I am. I don't know any different and I wouldn't change it for the world. Dance allows me to feel and experience things only dancers can understand. Being on stage brings me so much happiness and being in a studio feels like home. I love the challenges physically, mentally, and most of all artistically that come with the journey of being a dancer. I love to learn new styles of movement and to be pushed to places I have never been. I love the opportunities and doors that have been opened in my life because I chose to dance. My path as a kid was different than most but it was mine and thats what makes it so special. I love my parents for supporting me no matter what and for always being my #1 fans. I love the people that path has brought into my life and the people I get to share the stage with. Those people are my family. Every dancer is different and unique but we all share the same passion and that is why we just get each other.
"It takes an athlete to dance but an artist to be a dancer."
"To dance is to be out of yourself.
Larger, more beautiful, more powerful." - Agnes De Mille
"Dance enables you to find yourself and
lose yourself at the same time ."
....There is only one of you in the world,
just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something
has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
- Martha Graham "I am a dancer"
"I see dance being used as communication
between body and soul, to express what is
too deep to find for words."- Ruth St. Denis
xoxo - a girl in the city
