One of the first questions people ask me is, “When did you start dancing?” My usual response is “Well...my mom put me in a tap class at age 4, but honestly I’ve been dancing my whole life.” Martha Graham said “I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer.” This statement resonates a lot with me because I also feel that I did not choose to be a dancer. Being a dancer is who I am. 

 

My mission is to inform and redefine what it means to be able to dance. I want people to know that dance is available to all regardless of ability level. And I’d like to continue the strides forward to inform the public that dancing is a natural human response to the rhythms we hear.  Pablo Picasso said, “Children are natural born artists. The problem is how to remain artists once they grow up." Like Picasso, I believe we were born as creative human beings with the desire to express ourselves through music and dance. But what I hear too often is, “I’m not a dancer.” or “I can’t dance.”

 

So, I want us to think about these four basic ideas:

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1. Before you could breath outside of your mother’s womb you could stretch, and twist and kick.

2. Before you could utter a word, you could communicate through basic gestures.

3. Before you could walk, you could wiggle and shake to the music you heard.

4. And before you knew how to judge yourself, you could naturally and instinctively dance.

 

It is because of my convictions that I have started this website. I hope to provide EVERY SOLE with resources that encourage them to make dance a part of their everyday lives. 

 

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