Throughout my dance career, the message was loud and clear: 'cherish this time, because it will all be over before you know it. Think now about what you'd like to do after dance...'
I am grateful that teaching has brought an equal sense of accomplishment to what I felt onstage, and am motivated by the knowledge that my impact on my young audiences may be far greater, with the potential to inspire dreams in the next generation.
My career as an artist has had multiple twist and turns, and I am acutely aware of the positive role my love of dance has played at each one.
Having had a passion for photography since my teenage years I naturally turned to this other artistic love, using it as an outlet to work through my changing professional identity.
Even as a teenager at Canada’s National Ballet School, I remember being realistic about the length of the career I may have – I was hoping for twenty years, but knew it could be much shorter for a number of reasons.
Helping dancers make necessary transitions into, within, and from professional performing careers since 1985.
