Here’s to more moments. Just enjoying what we do, the art we love and breathe, the people around us. The first video is 2018 highlights III; the second, a compilation from classes taken/taught over the last 9 days. I am rekindling the love of dance, the sheer fun of it, and just taking in the joy of those around me. So glad and grateful for the people I’ve worked with—past, present, and, yes, future. It’s taken a long time for me to feel like I belong in the dance world. Now I realize I was always part of the tribe of movers and movement artists: I had been waiting to be accepted by the industry, by the community—but really I needed to make peace with the fractured parts of myself that made me feel like I didn’t belong, that being weird was wrong, and that though I extolled and championed individuality and authenticity in others, I somehow wasn’t allowed to do that for myself. For a long time I felt like an alien. Now I embrace it and along the way, I have to come to accept myself, very simply (though to be honest, involved a long and difficult journey). Yesterday, just driving in the car, it clicked—I felt like I finally belonged. But it didn’t take external approval or outside accolades. It was a knowing echoed by Rumi long ago: “Let the beauty we love be what we do...what you seek is seeking you...Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” And, finally, perhaps most importantly, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ♥️ I am inspired and emboldened by the courage of so many artists and performers who are creating and pushing themselves. I hope to keep growing in that direction of fearlessness and commitment, and have a boatload of fun doing it. To art, yo, and many #happydances. 🙂 (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtPDcBrAgsb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ip6d4v1c7k43
