That's Dance! And Sketching too! As unlikely a pair as chalk and cheese and yet, surprisingly or unsurprisingly, I found them to have so many similarities. They require you to be confident - firm in your strokes for sketching and clean in your movements in dance. And graceful - swift, sinuous movements as your hand flies across the sheet of paper etching strokes with a seeming ease. Graceful, elegant and quick movements, also, while your body moves in sync with the rythm of the music, slicing the air with moves deceptively simple. But both require you approach them with logic, precision and and a plan of action either consciously or, if you're skilled enough, subconsciously. I think they're both a test of YOU as a person, the ease you are at with yourself and how uninhibitedly you can let the essence of You flow out through brush strokes and dance moves. They reveal the very core of you and your personality to viewers; intimate forms of art which always make an artist feel vulnerable. You are putting yourself out there for the world to see and invariably get judgmental. They are as pure a way of expressing yourself as it can get, and boy, do you need courage to be able to not only be true to yourself to let your being shine through your work, you have to be brave enough with having the world witness it. Art Forms at their best (and no, I'm not talking about being a master at them - just being strong enough to allow yourself to express though them)!
