After reading todays Guardian article Side hustle essential: how Covid brought dancers to their knees by Lyndsey Winship, I was compelled to reflect on my past decades worth of work and the underlying precarity that I have managed to withstand as I have navigated the rocky terrain of the arts world. I never really thought [...]
Category: Lifestyle
MOVING ALONE, TOGETHER
Trinity Laban Voices in Motion over 60's dancers, 2019 To all my fellow #dance & #performance pals I’ve seen so many of you shifting your practice and embracing the digital to connect with existing and new participants globally! Generously turning your living spaces into home studios and helping people get out of their seats and their minds and really [...]
There’ll be a day, hopefully not long from now.
There’ll be a day, hopefully not long from nowwhen families will be reunited with cuddles and kisses not pixels on screens or live streams but people, together and our hands will heal. Friends will sit side by side, laughing as we occupy our favourite spaces againsigns saying 'temporarily closed' and 'hope to see you soon' on the doors will go, and [...]
Shapeshifter
there are times when I truly believethat I have always known who you areyour tastes, your desires, your dreamsa triangle of coloursthe person whose refection I seein square window panes and puddlesand in the hearts of those I lovebut the truth is that you, my dearyou are ephemeral and forever renewingas fresh as the first [...]
The sky
Lately I've been spending a lot of my time looking upThe skyThe vast cavernous rooftop that is endless and ever changingIt's a connection between me and and the worldA path from me to youA deep pit of blue, peppered with stars, stretching far and wideA cocoon in which the earth restsA way inThe way out [...]
A note from 2013
One day in 2013. Today was a Monday. Quite the none starter. Being quite a fresh MFA graduate, I still feel like an enclosed caterpillar of education waiting for the right time to burst free from my chrysalis into a beautiful life as a flourishing butterfly, where all hopes and dreams come true. (Yeah,right!) Meanwhile [...]
Keep that fire burning
They said I should sell myself,But I didn't know how.Writing reams, connecting seams of a future undone.By societies ideologies and an unknown desire to be successful.To make money, to be good.Like I know I should be, but it's hard to see why a girl like me,should rise to the top; be the best?I've seen doting [...]
STACIE LEE BENNETT-WORTH 