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“Each session consists of the first 15 minutes of stretching fingers and limbs to painful hyperextension. Each lesson, she tests me to see if I have been practicing at home. [...] It honestly took me three lessons to learn this first warm-up dance. I have pretty good hand and foot coordination, but this was very difficult and painful. She stretched my body in unnatural ways, and the angles created by my fingers and limbs had to be very exact. It’s similar to the game of patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time. Overall I like studying Thai Classical Dance. It feels like Tai Chi or Yoga. In the moment, it feels relaxing and calming. At the end, I am exhausted and sore.”

“When I started bharatnatyam, it just made sense to me. After having thought a lot, and practised, and experienced other styles of dance (flamenco), I realise it was probably what I always wanted to do, I just didn't know it. I remember in the classes I was in front of a mirror, which for the first time was giving me back the version of myself that I'd always wanted to be. Dancing helped me embrace that, and also get my parents to accept me for who I was.”