Dancing with Myself
Susi Hamill
“Dance has a hidden language, a form of pure expression and a pathway to happiness”
Dance and movement have always been in my life. My Grandmother was a dancer for the Tivoli Theatre in Melbourne and as a young child she took me to pantomines and theatre productions almost every week. I can't remember a time in my life where I haven't danced or moved my body in some way.
My younger years were a controlled type of dance, a choreographed dance where I learnt dance as a collective. My early adult years were more frantic. I was free to start expressing myself on the dance floor but was still held back by ego. I danced wildly and didn't give myself over to the pleasure of dancing.
When my life took an unexpected turn and I found myself truly alone I turned to dance and started dancing in a way I never had before. Free flow, moving however my body felt it needed to and letting whatever needed to come out do so. The music that I listened to changed and I found myself on this incredible journey of discovering so many aspects of myself that I had buried.
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music” Friedrich Nietzsche
2025 I decided to take this self-exploration of dance further and enrolled in a Sacred Dance & Ritual Movement course facilitated by Aradia Sunseri. This has been life changing for me. I have blossomed and grown into the woman I always felt was there but I had not honoured her and allowed her to shine. The more I allowed my body to move intuitively the more awakened I became. It really is such a free form of expression that is capable of healing deep wounds and through Sacred Dance I have received a lot of answers that I had been looking for.
Next year I aim to start teaching and to incorporate my photography with dance. These are the two passions in my life and I am very excited to start paving this new path and see where it takes me.
Take care and stay true to your soul.
Susi.
