It never ceases to amaze me what it's like to be on the other side of the curtain.
I've spent most of my childhood (and parts of young adulthood) training and performing in as many styles of dance as possible.
After my injury a few years ago and being unable to take classes with the same free abandon as before, my perspective changed.
I turned to teaching. I had learned, seen and thought so much about dance and choreography, that it felt like the most natural step.
It wasn't all rainbows. There were actually a lot of butterflies. That's what three to five year-olds want to dance as in recreation centre classes.
This grew to teaching contemporary classes to the dance students at my old high school, many who have no dance experience. There were tough days, where it felt like you were speaking in a different language to a group of people.
However, there is choreography for everybody...a difficult but true mantra from an old director that I've adopted for myself. We are all equal, just stronger in different ways.