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How old were you when you knew that you wanted to be a dancer?
By the end of college I was doing more dancing, performing, and choreographing than anything else (despite the fact that I was actually an English major)! But I wasted a lot of time in those early years bemoaning the fact that I had started too late to ever consider dance as a career. It was only when I had been out of college for several years and was considering graduate school that I realized I was at a "now or never" moment: either I could apply myself to some other field and run the risk of always wondering "what if" about dance, or I could really give the dance thing a go once and for all. So at the age of twenty-seven I went off to grad school at the Laban Centre in London, thinking: at least if I fail, I'll know that I really tried. Instead, all sorts of amazing opportunities opened up for me, and indeed I launched my career in dance. Since then, I can't tell you how many prominent dancers I've met who didn't start dancing until college, like me. I always think that deciding to pursue dance 'against the odds' was the world's best lesson in following one's passion rather than all those murmuring voices of 'reason' we carry about with us. It absolutely paid off for me, although it was by no means easy. But then, for me, it seems all the most worthwhile things in life have come with a big risky leap! "this is a manila site 2" "get acrobat" "get quicktime" Copyright 2008 TeachingArts.org |