What is motivation?

My desire for dancing developed in my heart, before I even new what dancing was. It was a dream that seemed so far away, but at the same time it was stronger than all nightmares. It was so strong that I didn't even have to think about motivation. But after enough set backs you will find yourself asking the question: how can I go on? And from then on it is motivation that makes the difference when the alarm rings! Motivation means putting 100 per cent of your time, effort and energy into preperation. A dancers life is about total commitment. If you doubt what you are doing it will bring you down. If you have the most talented and best trained body but you don't have the mental capacity to deal with the challenges that will face you, you will not go anywhere! People told me all my life: you are not pretty enough,you are not talented enough, you started too late you will never book a job! And I was thinking: Maybe they are right. But I also knew I had a will. and I was hoping that in the end that will will prove greater than genious or talent. And I trained like a maniac! And I will finish this story with a quote by martha graham that I like very much and always think of when times get rough: "BEING A DANCER WAS AN ACT OF TOTAL COMMITMENT COSTING NOT LESS THAN EVERYTHING!"

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Play hard................ or go home!

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A dancer doesn't need a stage.... only a soul!

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Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art!

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SMART HAS THE PLANS, STUPID HAS THE STORIES! DIESEL

Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambiton!

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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  anais nin

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The fire is burning you hardly can touch/ Life is for learning you want it so much/ How long can you handle the fear of defeat?/ will you shine like a candle or fall off your feet/ You can rise like a star or collapse for good/ find out who you are and do what you could/ Let there be no regret, strengthen your core/ don't do anything yet you could be sorry for/ The end of the rainbow you aim for a lot/ Just try with a new go use what you've got/ The sun will shine for a thousand years/ And you can grow like the flowers in spring/ There will be more laughter than tears/ Let the future bring what it wants to bring/ Just feel the burning in your heart/ It's not to hard if you reach your home/ The sweet pain injected by art/ walk straight ahead, you're never alone!

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UNITY IN DIVERSITY

a song I like

Photograph each day so we can live forever. Sit in the light to make the dark a little darker and I dance to move only you and I fight to kiss and make up. I scream for some scilence. I laugh to laugh for once, not there so you notice I'm gone and I breath cuz it's necessary and I sigh when I see the moon. I dream to make sleep less boring..until there was you and I feel in the absence of heart and I plug my eyes to cry. And I'm hopelessly romantic and kicking the habits but all the hearts have darts. (unhearted, automatic loveletter)

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dancing is crazy, dancing is hard, dancing is a mystery, dancing is an art, dancing is my yesterday, dancing is my start, dancing is my future, until I fall apart! (Petra Haller)

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There is a train leaving nightly called "when all is said and done" - Keep me in your heart a while! (Warren Zevon)

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We are here to learn thats why it's called a class!

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THE SACRIFICES THAT YOU MAKE/ WILL HURT AND EXHAUST YOU CAN'T DENY/ BUT IN THIS RUNNING FIGHTING STATE YOU DONT FEEL YOU DONT CARE YOU DONT CRY/// FOR EVERY DAY YOU CLIMB OUT OF YOUR BED/ WITH ACHING MUSCLES AND WORRY/ YOU FORGET WHAT ALL THOSE DOUBTERS SAID/AND CONTINUE REACHING FOR GLORY///         SOMETIMES YOU ARE YOUR GREATEST ENEMY/AND YOU PUSH AND YOU SCREAM/ BUT YOUR HEART KNOWS WHERE YOU WANT TO BE/ AND YOU JUMP UP AMD FOLLOW YOUR DREAM (PETRA HALLER)

dedicated to the wonderful teachers I had so far

The teacher stands at the crossroads of the dancers' world, holding one rein on creativity,one rein on technique, one rein on aesthetics, one rein on the living process, one rein on the future, one rein on the past. All these reins strain at once as, with the skill of a Roman charioteer, the teacher maneuvres this thundering energy towards a goal. (psychology of dance)

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HI

I am petra, i'm a jazz dancer! im out here to live my dream and pursue my passions!

"pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever!" Lance Armstrong