Teaching is a natural extension of being an artist. I am in love with dance, and I know that a young artist will need personal strength, discipline and honesty to have a life as an artist. They need to be brave enough to explore their own voice, disciplined enough to develop the skill to shape it, and honest enough to question themselves and those around them. Teaching allows me an opportunity to reflect on and share my experiences. It helps to define those things I consider to be of real importance in Art and life. It gives me an opportunity to share those things with young people I feel a kinship toward. These individual students stimulate, frustrate, motivate, and excite me. I struggle with them, and the struggle is good, it is soaring. I think that dance is fun, beautiful, challenging and that we are imperfect, beautiful creatures. In dance we can thrive. I learn from students, from teaching. I succeed, I fail, I grow.
