Living legends

Siv og barna...det kom en haug med små 3-4 åringer inn på slutten av timen...

There are so many people who inspire me. In life, in dance, in freedom and art. Most of them are not the great lengends of time....long gone, but people I met in my life. The other day in class (when I sprained my toe -yes) I was looking around the room....and was almost overwhelemed with the inspiration from the dancers surrounding me! Siv being, to me, the most perfect dancer...perfectly placed, and perfectly free in range and way of movement. And with expressions and light in her eyes thats pretty uniqe. What I love about her classes is that the emphasis is on expression. Sure, with the perfect tecnique one will execute the movements more corrcly, but on the other hand freedom in movement and tecnique can sometimes contradict each other. What I mean is that in the end, what matters, is weather you are able to reach the audience with something more that impressive tecnique. This emphasis in class makes me think less of what I look like, and more of what the feeling expressed should be. I'm trying to take emotions from my life and put them into great use in my dancing.


There are a couple of other dancers that I would also like to mention. Rathi for one. She inspires me every time! She always does something special with the given chorography and adds her own flavour! It's so inspiring. and makes me think differently about my own movements.

to tell you how sorry i am...

I also noticed Søren. I loved the way his body executed the small details in the choreography!

Last but not least Jon Ole who adds more emotion to the dance than anyone else I know. I saw him in Siv's performance "choices" in 2009, and he was the one danceer who actually brought me to tears! He danced a whole story and it really made it through to me. He is my best example of how perfect tecnique can in fact emphesize great emotions.

brought you to tears....

So the strive will be to work and work and work to get stronger tecnique, but not give up even though it isn't perfect. Rather to give more emotions where there is a lack of it, and bring something of my own. Finally to keep being inspired and maybe, if I'm lucky, inspire someone......