Personal Narrative: A Career As A Professional Dancer
How do you like to express yourself? Well I use dance as a way to express myself and my feelings, It's like another language to me, using movement and facial expressions the body says what words cannot.
In my future I would like to go into the creative industries because performing and dancing is my passion, I love doing it and I would love to be able to wake up every day to do something I love rather than waking up to an alarm and going to a job I hate and am not passionate about. The creative industry isn't just dancing and performing It's also people like artist, technicians and people in design and fashion.
Ever since I can remember I've been dancing whether it's been in dance class or dancing for my family at home, I love it, I love …show more content…
In 2000 Misty joined the American Ballet Theater studio company, Then in 2007 she became one of the youngest American Ballet Theater dancers to be promoted to a soloist and on June 30th 2015 Misty Copeland became the first african american female principal dancer in the american ballet theatre's 75 year history.
Misty is my inspiration and I know that being a professional dancer would be a lot of hard work and a lot of long hours but I don't think of dancing as a job, because when I think of a job I think of working long hours and paperwork and things like that, dance to me is my passion not my job but in the future I would like to pursue a career in dance and make it my job.
I'm going to leave you with this quote from Misty:
“I never was told, ‘You can be anything,’“I never was told,
‘You’re great at this, or even if you’re not great at this we have the funds to support you.’ I never had any of that. There’s something psychologically that stops you from believing that you
In my future I would like to go into the creative industries because performing and dancing is my passion, I love doing it and I would love to be able to wake up every day to do something I love rather than waking up to an alarm and going to a job I hate and am not passionate about. The creative industry isn't just dancing and performing It's also people like artist, technicians and people in design and fashion.
Ever since I can remember I've been dancing whether it's been in dance class or dancing for my family at home, I love it, I love …show more content…
In 2000 Misty joined the American Ballet Theater studio company, Then in 2007 she became one of the youngest American Ballet Theater dancers to be promoted to a soloist and on June 30th 2015 Misty Copeland became the first african american female principal dancer in the american ballet theatre's 75 year history.
Misty is my inspiration and I know that being a professional dancer would be a lot of hard work and a lot of long hours but I don't think of dancing as a job, because when I think of a job I think of working long hours and paperwork and things like that, dance to me is my passion not my job but in the future I would like to pursue a career in dance and make it my job.
I'm going to leave you with this quote from Misty:
“I never was told, ‘You can be anything,’“I never was told,
‘You’re great at this, or even if you’re not great at this we have the funds to support you.’ I never had any of that. There’s something psychologically that stops you from believing that you