Am I My Resume?

I recently had to revamp my Curriculum Vitae (a highfalutin way to say resume) for work.  The process was actually meditative, as I started to analyze my career in dance displayed in words.
Thirty-five years of training, and over twenty years of professional dancing and teaching have seemed to slip through my fingers.  Does it feel like a long time?  In some ways, yes.  In other ways, I can still remember the smell of the rosin we would cover our feet with in ballet class as a little girl, and it only seems like yesterday.

I can see who I am as a dancer based on those words on that page; a little girl who loved ballet, who fell in love with theater, who became a teenager and fell in love with hip-hop, who became a young woman who fell in love with modern, who became a woman and fell in love with choreography.  It reads very simply, actually.

So I wonder why I confuse myself in who I am as a dancer??  Maybe because I see the judgement of how others perceive me...maybe because I feel trapped in teaching one genre for too long...or maybe because I'm too much of a chameleon who loves too many styles and can't focus on one direction...ADHD....
Regardless, the words on that page show a lifetime of hard work and dedication...and LOVE

Yes, I still love dance.  It will always be the love of my lifetime, I'm just learning to look at life differently and take what comes my way with open arms...




Isadora Duncan :-)