Motiveated by love

Original Post Date: Friday, December 31, 2010 at 9:04pm

(Did you think I was going to let the year end without a note??)

"The more you are movtiveated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be."  His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama

What a thought to start off the new year.  This line of thinking can be applied to dance as well as every day life.
The more you love what you do the more willing you are to abandon yourself to it.
There is no such thing as being fearless..  Instead you have embraced the fear for what it is and have decided to jump in with both feet anyway.  You didn't let the fear govern your actions.
For me there is fear every time I take center stage.  I don't think it will ever go away.  The what ifs...  What if the music gremlin shows up and my music won't play... What if I freeze and completely forget what I needed or wanted to do.  What if I hurt myself..
I have to work to push those thoughts right out of my head or at least stifle them with chocolate and a gag.
The moment the music starts I instantly remember that I am in the center of attention because I love to dance.  Not because I want the accolades or the reviews..  I am there because dancing makes ME happy.
Career advice that I heard growing up was.. "Do something you love and you will never work another day in your life."
Dancing doesn't pay the bills..  So I still need a regular job.
But, my love of dancing erases the drudgery of working.  It takes me only for a moment out of my mundane list of responsiblities.
In a single moment, I am free.  Free to embody the music and to move in a way that has touched a very real chord in my soul.
I am free to drag the audience on that path with me.
In that same single moment. I know that I will never have the same moment ever again.
I am filled with love for what I do and I am free and fearless.

I hope that 2011 brings to each of you:
A renewed love for the dance. If you need it.
A greater fuled passion for dance.  If you are already in love and willing to fall deeper.
A glimpse at the love that dance is.  If you have yet to experience it.
A moment to be free.
A moment to be fearless.

Here is to another collection of nothing more than Free, Fearless and Love filled moments of dancing with friends.  Old and New.  I am looking forward to each moment with each of you.