a vision in motion
sharpens your intension!
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
“Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" was his response. „I don't know," Alice answered.
„Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll - Alice in wonderland
Working with young dance artists on a daily basis I experience them coming into the studios every morning to train, to rehearse, to think and move together. I try to remember if i had a clear vision when I was 20 of what i wanted to do with dance as a career. I can remember vividly that I had a plan. My plan was, after graduating from the royal ballet school in London to come to Europe and get a few years experience as a professional dancer so I could return to London and start my own company.
There you go, I said it. I visioned having my own dance company. I even have it written down somewhere.
In Germany I found work in State theaters and opera houses for 15 years of full employment. You see the "few" years of experience turned into many more. Returning to London never happened. Marriage and a beautiful daughter happened to me. Meanwhile I have lived in Germany for longer than I grew up in England.
Having a vision means it will rise within you again and again in life and revisit your heart. This happened to me 2 years before I decided to leave the opera house lifestyle. I set out to chase my vision. I felt ready and courageous, passionate and unstoppable. When I look back I would say I was downright naive. My vision that I had planted would save me in my own doubt, it would protect me like a big brother against the ridicule from others and it was and is indeed unstoppable. WHY?
Its an offering from the heart that cannot be rejected. It will fall where it should fall, it will touch those it should touch, it will form and reform as much as I form and reform as a creative personality. Its sharp because I keep it sharpened. It is a vision in motion because I am moving. My vision is a work in progress I keep on making a next MOVE.
Your visions create futures and as they are like the rhythm of our heart beat that adjusts to our bodies need even to the point of skipping a beat.
...and thats sharp.
Deborah