You will never walk by true passion. If you're privileged enough to experience it and be in the presence of someone else's passion, it is breathtaking.
Two days ago, for the first time since I've been here, I saw my teacher dance. She was teaching us a self-choreographed solo for CUPS, and I have never seen such passion. She wasnt even performing FOR us, she was just dancing. I could not stop crying, not because it was sad but it was because I could see what she felt and what this dance meant to her. Her being a teacher and all, it is usually essential to put on a brave and tough face in front of her students. So before friday, I had never seen her dance.
As well as being physically exhausted, emotionally as a dancer is equally exhausting . You've got to fight your personal boundaries and just give yourself. You have to be self-less. You have to be able to give and not expect anything back. When the audience or even if it's just 1 member in the audience, sees what you're trying to tell them through your dance you know you've succeeded. And that's when it's all worth it. If you're unable to expose yourself to a whole audience of strangers, if you can't give yourself... then you might as well not do it.
If you want to succeed, you need to want it soooo badly. Sooo badly that you get back up even if you had already fallen more than 30 times just in the previous 100 metres. This goes for everything, not just dancing. Being an artist in general, a businessman/woman, a stay-at-home mum, as long as you're human this goes to you :)
Just for your own interest, my teacher did a lyrical jazz piece to Adele's cover of 'Make you feel my love'. Go listen to it if you haven't already:)
Have you got a passion? If you do, what are you doing about it?
Have a great day guys:)
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