Educating yourself as a dancer and instructor requires hours and hours of hard work in the studio, countless hours of weekend trips to take different classes and workshops, time spent watching and analyzing and figuring out how to get your students looking the best they possibly can, pedagogy classes, choreography classes, teacher's training classes....patience, passion and integrity. I feel these qualities are few and far between and those that have them will always be my heroes...who I look up to, who I try to model my teaching style after. I try to take little bits from each of these inspiring people (near and far) and sprinkle them on my dancers. I hope my students think of me this way.
There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul. *Isadora Duncan
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