Sin Prisa Cuando Llueve

I fell in love with the theater when I was 10. I played the lead in a child's musical play and was hooked forever.

This is a picture of my first formal choreography. It was a requirement for graduating the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey and it won the first place at the Danzas Creativas annual contest.

The 4 years in that school challenged me in a way nothing else has. Teachers there made it their task to break every student in any way they could in order to make them strong enough to face the ugly environment of the dance company's lifestyle. So every class started with an average of 15 students and only 4 graduated.

My class however, managed to stay strong and 9 graduated... We made history.

I look at this picture and it makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. I am not proud of the choreography per se, but I am proud of the enormous amount of knowledge and experience I achieved from the process of creating it. It made me grow both as a person and a dance teacher. It triggered a radical change inside me and became a landmark in my life. Suddenly the 4 years of love-hating the school made perfect sense.

I look at this picture and it hurts. I don't know how to explain it... I'm no artist and would never compare myself to one, but now I can understand what they say about Van Gogh hating his paintings.