The Wolf Step

This project is a representation of how I used dance to escape emotionally. When I was 12, I was diagnosed with LES (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), a chronic auto-immune system disease which harmed my self-esteem drastically. I chose to hide this and my feelings about it from everyone because I was so embarrassed: I was not a normal girl; I was ugly because I had a disease (I used to think that). When I felt bad (psychologically) I danced and this was the only moment that I felt powerful and pretty.

Dancing made me look at myself differently: beautiful, enough and capable of excelling. I made lupus dance with me to the wolf (lupus) step, the step I would have to add to my choreographies for the rest of my life.