took the words right out of my mouth

[cassidyrose]

In the collective imagination, we suppose that dancers are always self-confident creatures, comfortable enough in their bodies to spend night after night on stage in skin-tight leotards. But the neuroses of the dance world are intense and omnipresent, and no dancer is exempt.

"Just because I'm in this profession doesn't mean it's not hard as hell every day to get into a leotard and look at myself in the mirror. It doesn't mean that it's not hard every day. It requires some fortitude, more than I think people realize, more than I think my colleagues realize. They get so surprised when we have a costume fitting and I'm feeling really edgy, because they forget that size is an issue for me."

--Alexandra Beller, modern dancer

This is an excerpt from an article (more at the link above) written by Marina Wolf, founder and director of Big Moves, that ran in Radiance Magazine in 2000.

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

That's a very well-written interview. Thanks for sharing it!

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Happy to share! :)