Week 2: Inspiration | Farewell for Now

The people underneath those umbrellas are some of the most influential movers and thinkers I have had the utmost honor and pleasure of studying with. If you are familiar with San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, you know that it's a special place; a space where not only your best physical self is challenged to be present, but your most honest mental and emotional self as well. This photo was taken during a farewell lunch just a few weeks before the Conservatory closed it's doors. As heartbreaking as the closing of a dance institution can be, in the conversations I had revisiting with each of the educators whom had impacted my perspectives on movement and life in such transformative ways, lay a sense of familiar inviting warmth. Within each conversation was a knowingness of the inevitable fate of this wonderful institution balanced with the contentment of what will be. Maybe it was the weather that day, maybe it was the people that were there, but on that particular day was a gathering of reflection that felt like the perfect culmination of the generosity the Conservatory has contributed to movers and shakers who hope to continue the same.