01/21/2023
Hard but helpful truths for your Saturday (and beyond!) 🤔✨️🙌🏻
1. We're all born with different skeletons, which impacts parts of how we look and how we dance.
2. There's no skeleton store where we
can get a new one.
3. We have to work with what we were born with: embrace it!
That's all something that I wish more dancers, particularly young dancers, were more aware of (or at least remembered it more consistently!). Our limbs are the length they are, our hip joints (which largely determine our degree of safe, natural turnout) are what they are, our feet are the shape that they are. We can't change much, if not all, of that. Quite sadly, the ways in which some dancers try to change their bodies become harmful -- even toxic 😣😖
Instead, can we place our focus on our strengths and what we can uniquely offer? For example, we may not have the long, graceful limbs or the "perfect" turnout of that quintessential ballerina image in our heads. But perhaps our ability to pick up choreography and the fluidity in our spines shines. Embrace that and capitalize on it! That could just be the mindset shift that can help you make the sort dance life that makes you grateful just to have it and live it 💙✨️🙌🏻💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏽
