The Moth Podcast: Putting on our Dancing Shoes
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Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm Blaise Ferrer, and with a five, six, seven, eight... Yes. On this episode, we'll take a page from the great dancers throughout history. We'll put on our dance shoes, we'll find our pelvis, and we'll move through the joy and the self-expression that anybody at any age can get from dance. First up is Katie Rivard with a story she told at a New York City Story Slam. Here's Katie live at the Mock.
So a few years ago, I decided to move on my own from Boston to Tucson, Arizona in July. And the trip was ominous. My car broke down twice. I got there. It was 120 degrees. It was brown. Everything looks like Mars to me because I'm from Michigan. And so I spent the first two weeks on my own just watching Amy Schumer's train wreck over and over in the theaters and crying to myself. But I moved out there for a teaching job, and I felt pretty confident in my teaching abilities. I'd been teaching for a while, and so I thought, I've got this. But then the school year started, and I realized that the school I had signed up to teach at was similarly a train wreck. And I switch into type A teacher mode. I'm doing anything I can to get control back into my life.
cutting up tennis balls and putting them on the bottom of chairs so there's no extra noise with the already excessive noise that's going on in my classroom. But I'm struggling. And there's one student in particular, I'm gonna call her Maria for the sake of anonymity, and we're just not seeing eye to eye. She's taking those tennis balls I'm carefully cutting up and like throwing them at people and at me. And so I do what anyone does when you're struggling in your job. I decide to fulfill my childhood dream to become a dancer. And there's a local dance studio and they have auditions for an adult dance company. So I think this is great. This is what I'm gonna do with my time here.
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