I am really excited to say that I am officially signed with
@blocla Young casey is screaming right now and I know she’s so proud, in the first video she is 15 and she would never have believed you if you said she’d be here in ten years. Growing up I feel like I was shown what the ideal dancer was. Feminine, effortless, strong but light, pretty, skinny, tall but not too tall. I focused all of my energy on trying to prove myself as the ideal dancer, trying to change things out of my control. I never felt like I was enough, and I always felt like I had to prove myself to be seen. When I got older and was seen in more spaces and good things would happen to me in dance, I always thought it was by accident. Like ‘this must be luck, because no way they think that I’m good enough’. I’ve been trying to undo these thought patterns since I got to college and afterwards. My college professor,
@tommiewaheed used to say that ‘we have nothing to prove and everything to share’. I believe that now and have started to over the last couple of years. My dancing is queer and strong and grounded and controlled and I can be a tornado and fuck up the space and I can be soft and tender and everything in between. I’m deserving and I know myself now without the lens of questioning my worth. It feels good to be seen as me in something that I love more than anything in the world. Thank you
@shaynalb for seeing me and believing in me. Thank you for not asking me to change but asking for me to be seen as I am. I am honored to be signed with this agency. I have so many dreams and this is just the beginning. (If you stuck with me for this long sappy caption, I appreciate you AND thank you to the people along the way who have seen me and encouraged me to be myself, this is for you)
