Tag: freedom
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10 Years To Make A Dancer
There is an adage that it takes 10 years to make a dancer. I heard that while I was training to be a professional dancer. Based on nothing but my own experience this seems to be a rough-and-ready truism with some validity to it. It took me 10 years to go from beginner to advanced/professional…
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The Sweat That Makes You Free
At night I used to walk down 55th Street (in high school my after-school classes were at Ballet Arts at City Center) in the cold with my hair slicked back to the sides of my sweaty head. The feeling of the wind slapping against the side of my head, knowing I should be wearing a…