People often ask me questions like: why did I choose dance as my passion or what do I think makes a good dancer, or is it fulfilling enough? And as strange as it may seem, most of the time I don't know how to even begin answering this question marks.
I've never considered myself as a DANCER. I believe thinking ourselves as nouns limits us as beings. I simply have always loved and enjoyed to learn how to move my body in ways I wouldn't think it could.
Through the dance styles that I have experienced I've learnt about criticism, fear, self-doubt, anxiety, discomfort, failure. But without it I wouldn't have experienced the self-discipline, inner strength, risk, respect for your partner, passion, joy, acceptance and appreciation but mostly self-love in such an intense way.
Call it dance, therapy, free movement, samba, art...
All these lessons and emotions that I carry inside made me who I am and for these parts of me I am thankful to the art of movement for introducing me a way to express and share my gratitude. There is no good or bad in art but only how big the love for it is, and if the love is real there's nothing more gratifying than that.
The gift to our soul is our body.
Lots of love,
x Katerina