How The Journey Began
Allow me introduce myself.
My name is Sarah Modisette. I am 27 years old with a background in dance and theatre arts. I love ballet, jazz, and modern dance, I stink at tap but I can fake it just enough to get by. I love to sing although I think I am better at dancing. I consider myself a singer/ dancer, I am a performer.
In August I will be attending an audition for Le Reve in Boulder, Co. However, before I get to that I would like to tell you how this journey began.
Years ago I was introduced to aerial silk, an acrobatic art form that takes movement and places it on a fabric suspended in the air. I had always wanted to learn aerial silk, but could never found a person or place that taught this. After years of wishing and hoping my luck changed.
Last year I took a job I would not usually take. Instead of being onstage as a performer I would add technical theatre to my resume, but I wasn’t your usual tech. I was hired on at SeaWorld San Antonio to work at the heights of a catwalk checking equipment and assisting bungee acrobats and aerial artists. It was an exciting new challenge and the first time I had the opportunity to work with heights. I found that I could work at heights with ease and comfort, you can do anything you set your mind to! It was last year I was suddenly surrounded by talented divers and acrobats that performed brilliantly on bungee, russian swing, lyra, and aerial silk! It was in this new job I met not one, but two beautiful aerial artists that would help me begin my journey with aerial silk.
I literally started learning with a silk hanging from a tree in the backyard of one of the aerialist, Elizabeth, and the other aerialist, Julia, teaching me, thoroughly inspected with a thumbs up on safety of course (location has since upgraded to a gym in Boerne). I didn’t think a year later I would plan to train for such a big audition as Le Reve, a remarkable show in Las Vegas. Little did I know I was starting on a journey. The road is difficult, but like I said before you can do anything you set your mind to.
I have been training for about a month now and it hasn’t been easy and time is running out. The audition date is August 9th and I have less then 6 weeks to get prepared. With the support of friends, family, and my trainer Meagan, I know I can do this.
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