Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.
My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.
I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
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