I’ve been dancing for five years, and I think it’s always been a process of peaks and plateaus. I’ll go through a kind of manic dance phase where I’m dancing every day and figuring out something new every day and come out of it thinking, “wowee, I’ve grown so much as a dancer. What next?” And then I spend a couple months on a plateau, dancing only a couple times a week and looking at how many more peaks I will have to crest before I am anywhere near the dancer I want to be.

But when I watch dancers who seem to feel that they’ve arrived, I don’t want that for myself.

My plateaus are less exciting than cresting another peak, but I’m happy to find them because it means I have another peak to climb and a space to catch my breath before I get going again.

Better in Bedlah is about the idea that there is always something to learn, and always a way to be better than we are today.