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: Personal
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 [...]
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 