discovering the vision

The unfortunate truth is, the majority of the professional dancers I’ve interacted with feel forced into sacrificing money, time, energy, self-worth, lifestyle, health, relationships, and even sanity just to make their dream a reality (but then, is it their dream?). I am still newer to the professional end of my dance career, but I’m fortunate to have realized very early that I was not willing to sacrifice all of those things in order to be a ballet dancer. Which, after already investing 18 years of my life into that path, was an extremely hard pill to swallow thinking that’s the only reality out there in this career…