Know what your body can do
After a lifetime of dancing, it was time to discover dancing in the air. And at age 33, I began my aerials journey. It started with aerial silks and I quickly fell in love with it. Dancing in the air pushed my body to extreme. With gravity literally pushing on the entirety of my body, I became extremely flexible. I could do middle splits in the air, where I could never before just as a dancer and ballerina. I also grew incredible strength. To be able to climb the silks, hold your body up in the silks, I had to build strength. I was soon dancing on exercise bars in the parks because I could literally lift my body up and then dance on the bars, still one of my favourite things I loved doing. It made me realise, I had all these limitations in my head and really I could push my body, which was no longer in its prime to really do amazing things that I had never done before. I also dabbled in some contoration, which was one of my favourite tricks, where I touched my f...
