Fear

The problem with fear is that we can never run away from it.  It is always changing as we change and eventually we need to face it. Twyla Tharp shows her top five fears and how she deals with them. I believe that fear is not something we can get over.

            We fear things in the moment. It is my opinion that as we change, our fear changes too. We do not teach ourselves to not fear something by repetition or the will to get over something. As we change our fear evolves, it moves with us building and coming apart. As a dancer, I fear many things. Some of which include the fear of not putting on a good show, the fear of getting injured, and the fear of losing inspiration. As I work through it, my fear works with me. I will always fear getting injured. This could happen at anytime but the more I dance the less I think about it. The fear doesn’t leave me though. I work through it and trust that I have enough skills to do the move.

            Not putting on a good show is something that we all fear as performers. It is the judgment that is sticking with us. Although we put on a show that we think is good, we take this fear and use it in other aspects of our lives. The judgment moves with us in different situations.

            In my personal opinion that fear moves with us. The way we “get over it” is by trying not to listen to it and doing what we want to anyway. Once we accomplish our goal though, our fear changes as our goal changes.