lana.

Current soundtrack: anything and everything by Lana del Rey. Cannot wait to hear her entire album.

Again, another throw to artistic music videos that I'm having an obsession with lately. Her crown of flowers, tigers and the cinematography? J'adore.

fuel.

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.

swoon.

I die.

merry.

inspiration.

Where does inspiration come from?

Yes, we see things everyday that may make something inside us click, tick, or just feel something warm. Sometimes these things stay with us an materialize through our work, but more often than not, they drift away as the world takes over our minds.

I'm still trying to figure that out. Sometimes my ideas are so clear and then fall apart when I try to make them happen. That is probably the worst feeling in the world.

However, is this were we fall back and challenge our creativity then? I think so.

Being creative doesn't necessarily mean having to be the next Picasso, but rather challenging the norm of what you consider normal. For me, the lines that others draw in normality are individualistic, and feel that they should be left. Who is to say what we consider real to actually be untrue?

There is something very comforting about following the rules...relaxing even. There's something liberating and challenging about breaking them.

Finding the balance between them is the moment for inspiration. How far can we push our "normals" before things get too mixed up? There lies creativity.

Just a thought.