#HOLDME: the @aucklanddanceco heels / burlesque students just being gorgeous- in an austere old hall out in Mangere. Released mid pandemic, when holding one another was kinda just impossible. Love looking back and seeing the magic we made 💫 As someone once said to me : nostalgia is a hell of a drug 🤷🏻♀️🩵
New Heels/burlesque courses start next Wednesday, with a one off heels foundation workshop 1.5 hours on tomorrow (Wednesday) for those who want to get dancing, sooner! Limited spaces left ⚡️ 7-8.30pm #GETIN 💌 [email protected] - I’ll see everyone who has enrolled, there! Let’s dance off this rain ☔️💃🏻💃🏼
Danced by: @aucklanddanceco heels class
Director/Creative Direction/ Choreography: 🙋🏻♀️ @kimberleyjames_
Videography @bybonatto
Edit @pmcreatives
Incredible song by @janine / Janine and the Mixtape 📼
www.aucklanddance.co.nz
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This is me being vulnerable.
I stopped seeing myself in the mirror a couple years ago.
I got very good at neglecting myself and prioritizing others. Others responsibilities and needs. I stopped seeing myself as an artist and started rooting my sense of self into being a hard worker. Diligent, dependable, reliable. All great qualities in a person… and all the perfect recipe for burnout when none are directed to yourself.
You can be the hardest worker in the world. But if work is taken out of the equation, who are you without it?
That is the question I’ve been asking myself everyday. And I don’t know anymore. But I would like to know.
I can’t be who I used to be. But I can be someone new. I can be someone better.
Depression gnaws on me like a leech and has told me every awful thing under the sun.
“You’re lazy, a failure, you have already peaked, you will never amount to anything, you are stupid and insignificant.”
It is time to stop believing it.
If you are in a season of change, of desperate reclamation of self, I fucking see you clear as day and I am right there with you, dragging my mind out of the hole I buried myself in.
It is never too late to be who you might’ve been.
