Moving in the Spirit "Believe in Me": Moving in the Spirit "Believe in Me": Iza_Gustin22142

“When I first started school, I was younger than everyone else and too shy to take dance class. Then one day I said, “You know what, I’m going to go in there and I’m going to do this.” I’ve been dancing ever since, because it’s helped me find who I am. I’ve learned that I am strong, stronger than I thought, and that I am different from what I thought I was, or what I thought I had to be. There are a lot of metaphors in dance for life, because it’s a partnership. If you’re sharing weight or doing a lift and one person pulls back too far, you’re both going to get hurt. I love dance so much, but I also want to become a firefighter one day. So whether it’s running through flames to rescue someone, or changing one person’s way of thinking, I want to make a difference for the better. My fellow dancers and I put so much work into our pieces that I want audiences to have the same sense of accomplishment we have when we finish performing, the sense of family and the sense of being together as artists.” – Iza Gustin

“When I first started school, I was younger than everyone else and too shy to take dance class. Then one day I said, “You know what, I’m going to go in there and I’m going to do this.” I’ve been dancing ever since, because it’s helped me find who I am. I’ve learned that I am strong, stronger than I thought, and that I am different from what I thought I was, or what I thought I had to be. There are a lot of metaphors in dance for life, because it’s a partnership. If you’re sharing weight or doing a lift and one person pulls back too far, you’re both going to get hurt. I love dance so much, but I also want to become a firefighter one day. So whether it’s running through flames to rescue someone, or changing one person’s way of thinking, I want to make a difference for the better. My fellow dancers and I put so much work into our pieces that I want audiences to have the same sense of accomplishment we have when we finish performing, the sense of family and the sense of being together as artists.” – Iza Gustin