By: Devon Lodge
When I first walked the halls of Juilliard my mind was a different mind and I thought I knew everything there was to know about this world, and I was startled to find out that very little of the information I learned through adolescence was applicable to where I now found myself. Quickly I realized that I was going to have to relearn a complete new way of thinking, a new way of moving, and a new way of being. The self I had created when I was first becoming a teenager was no longer appropriate for what lay ahead, and so I began to question everything. I began by questioning myself, my ways of seeing and feeling things, I wanted to break them apart until I truly understood myself, but that quickly lead to my questioning everything around me.
Juilliard gave me the opportunity to face everything inside of me, it gave me a place to go everyday where I could move and work through the internal world that desperately needed to be understood, and for that I am incredibly thankful. I have been able to grow tremendously, creatively, emotionally, physically, but that is because I took my education into my own hands and became responsible for what I needed to learn at that given time.
Juilliard gave me the opportunity to face everything inside of me, it gave me a place to go everyday where I could move and work through the internal world that desperately needed to be understood, and for that I am incredibly thankful. I have been able to grow tremendously, creatively, emotionally, physically, but that is because I took my education into my own hands and became responsible for what I needed to learn at that given time.