Where My Journey Started

The truth is, when you start dancing as a child, it is much easier.

You don't have the same fears, the same aches and pains, the same pile of day to day stresses. You don't have to worry if you have enough money in your bank account to pay for training or if work will let you leave early to get ready for a performance. No one is judging you. YOU'RE not judging you. You're not comparing yourself to other people younger than you.

Starting dance as a kid means it is  actually a fresh start. You get to focus on what you're doing without the backlog of experiences and thoughts to add pressure. That means when you start dancing as an adult, you have at least 10 times the amount of difficulties as you would have had if you started as a child.

This is why most people do not start dancing as an adult. In fact, for most people, adulthood is where most creative pursuits end and where "practical" pursuits begin. Guaranteed, if you ask most adults in a room what their creative pursuits are, they will most likely say something along the lines of "that was something I used to do" or "I did that as a kid, but I quit." So, if you asked any other 22 year old with no dance background to take on a career in dance education and performance, they would think you were crazy.

I wasn't any other 22 year old…

As I have already thouroghly explained my short dance journey as a child, I won't start with that. I'll start at the place where most people leave and end their story.

I wish I could say that my reintroduction to dance was glamorous and awe-inspiring like an underdog scene from a movie, where the main character is struggling in life, but is taken under the wing of a master and becomes a star....but, it wasn't like that at all. In fact, my dance journey started in the last place you would think of......a Zumba class.