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The fact that dancing stops with dancing is very difficult, it has to do with the enormous amount of changes that people have to make in such a moment.
Because every hour of the day, it is no longer a day from the same moment, as it was at that moment.
And that brings a lot of questions to people.
And therefore people come to the environmental regulation.
So not only because of the financial support they can get from us, but also because they have to accompany us and help us in our second career.
Dancing is like everything to me, so it was not about the technique, it was about the passion and the emotion behind it.
That is what attracted me in dancing.
Now I have different things, I have a different way of life.
Dancing was my life, and it is actually the best to explain, I had the feeling that the dance has chosen me.
Dancing does a lot, it asks a lot.
I had a lot over it and it was all a difficult thing, but you don't have to say otherwise, no.
Dancing is actually not a profession, it is more of a lifestyle.
I remember from my training that I had the difference between who you are and what you do.
That in some groups it is very clear, but dancing does not exist.
A dancer is a dancer, and at the same time it is for his work.
That is always very nice, because dancing experiences them more often as a passion.
Something that they are very proud of, that they can be happy, that they can actually make a hobby of their profession.
At the same time, it has the effect that if you stop, at that moment you will ask yourself who you are and what you have done all these years.
And then finding a new career for yourself is of course a very difficult question at the moment.
I stopped dancing because I had already had several injuries during dancing.
So I already had a little preview of how it is to not be able to dance anymore.
So that was also a lesson, I have to say, at that moment.
And I was very aware that I wanted to stop at a good moment,
so that the body is completely in sync, that you are physically very strong.
I also had very nice roles then.
And then I actually said, if I am 30, then I will stop.
That was very tough to stop with what you do best.
But I also thought it was a nice lifetime.
And I was also interested in a new life and a different life.
I also thought it was challenging, what it could be and I was very hungry for it.
When I stopped, I immediately looked for what I wanted.
I knew very clearly that it had to be done with color interior.
But I did not find any lessons that contributed to what I was looking for.
So then I actually assembled a package myself.
So I actually combined my own teaching.
And I added that package to the training fund.
And it turned out to be one of the first to do it that way.
But I was also pregnant, I could not go to school at full time.
So it was not a question of, well, I'm going to do a study for four years now.
Because I was pregnant, so in that way that package and also much more fun actually, afterwards.
And they just honored that. Yes, great.
I do everything in my life passionately.
So whether I dance or what I do now, I do passionately now.
I make space for people who live and work in it.
And I do that in the middle of color. And the color is also passion and also emotion.
Because color calls for a whole lot of emotion in us.
When I tell people what my job is, I get a lot of reactions.
Oh yes, those dancers are going to start their own school.
Or they are going to work as a dancer.
Well, in the meantime, the practice is over.
After that 25-year-old, we can see dancers in every direction back.
It varies from rain structure to visibility, the advocate, a fruit woman, a journalist, a visage.
There is actually no direction where you can find no dancers, ex-dancers.
Ex-dancers are everywhere.
The reason why I stopped is that I had a herniated disc.
And I was already kind of planning towards the end of my career before I had this injury.
And it shortened my career by just a few years.
When I switched careers, I had a few meetings with Paul Bronckhorst from the Hohmsholings-Reicheling.
Who helped me decide what the best future was for me.
At first, I went into accountancy. I did a 2-year course.
After completing that, I did a small internship at the music theater in the financial department.
And I found it extremely difficult sitting behind a desk after being so active for all my life.
During my career, I was involved a little bit on the side with real estate.
So I thought maybe I could find something that had to do with this.
The next step was looking for a property and working on a business plan and seeing how it could work for me.
And this is what Paul helped me to do.
And this new passion I found was not really in running a bed and breakfast, but it was more into producing something beautiful.
I was always interested in interior design and architecture.
So it was kind of a way for me to put out something like a showroom.
And it's always very gratifying whenever guests walk into the rooms and are amazed at the decoration and place and they say how beautiful it is.
I feel very proud with it, yes, but I think it's only a means to an end. I'm still looking for the next thing to do.
And you can also see that dancers in their second career are very successful.
Around 80% of them in a year have been able to find a job, which is a very good performance.
Because dancers in their lifetime who are on the labor market are already in a very good light.
It's hard to stop. It's a bit of a farewell from a love.
It's a rough process, something is going to die for me.
And it's the first moment that I didn't believe there was going to be some news.
What would have been so hard back then as a dancer?
What would have fascinated me so much? What would have filled my life even more?
And then the process came, there was going to be some news.
And then we blew it up.
I'm very grateful that I was able to do some more news.
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When I tell people that I've become an artist, and what I've done before,
everyone looks at me and says, what an ending.
For me it feels like there's a link, it's physical.
At the moment you know a lot about the body, you've had pleasures,
you know what it means to go beyond it, you have to swing it,
it's also time consuming.
It's a very physical change, at the moment you know your body,
but the training and your feet also change.
For me there's a link.
I've done a lot of yoga, breathing.
I have the feeling that I can take my knowledge from dancing.
The changes are very special.
The Dutch changes are very unique.
There are only eight countries in the world where there's a change.
But I also see in the practice that dancing is very important.
Not only dancing is also the same thing.
It's very important that they can offer perspective to their dancing after their career,
but the same goes for dancing, which is very important.
In any case, to know that they can fall back on something,
that the end of their career is there.
I have the feeling that I can dance further through life,
no longer in the city of Schouwburg or somewhere else,
on a tunnel, but in real life.
And that feels like a big gift.
Thank you for watching.
