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About me

Gender	Female
Introduction	I'm a serious adult student of ballet living, working, and studying in a large metropolitan city in Canada. As former athlete and music student, I love that ballet combines physicality and musicality with emotional expression, and credit regular classes as my form of personal therapy as well as challenging exercise and a good balance to my work in a more technical setting. When I tell people I study ballet, the question of "Why?" often comes up. Although I will never be employed as a dancer, gain external recognition, make money, or become famous (all common definitions of "success" or utility in modern life) from this training, I firmly believe that there are rich benefits to study and practice of something---ballet, yoga, language, literature, whatever--simply for one's own personal enrichment, sense of discipline, satisfaction, and internal growth.

Gender

Female

Introduction

I'm a serious adult student of ballet living, working, and studying in a large metropolitan city in Canada. As former athlete and music student, I love that ballet combines physicality and musicality with emotional expression, and credit regular classes as my form of personal therapy as well as challenging exercise and a good balance to my work in a more technical setting. When I tell people I study ballet, the question of "Why?" often comes up. Although I will never be employed as a dancer, gain external recognition, make money, or become famous (all common definitions of "success" or utility in modern life) from this training, I firmly believe that there are rich benefits to study and practice of something---ballet, yoga, language, literature, whatever--simply for one's own personal enrichment, sense of discipline, satisfaction, and internal growth.