A Danshuis Conversation with Lucia Marthas

And that's where that whole idea of your passion for education, was it something that you always knew you were this passionate about? Because you said you were teaching to also earn money.

In between, you know, I was in the academy and on that moment, all the ballet dancers were skinny like this.

And I was skinny, but I was not very, yeah, not a ballet dancer.

I was more sporty.

Yeah.

Very strong, but more important.

So they always put me a little bit in a way, maybe you can better also doing some teaching.

And they were thinking, okay, they never get a job.

That was in their minds.

But on that moment, everybody had to be 40 kilos.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was the time.

And then, so I was always a little bit, Masha Tereme was her name.

Masha Tereme, of course.

And she said, you have to do some class.

I said, okay, I can give class.

And then she said, okay, you give class.

I was not in the teaching department.

And then I gave a class and she said, okay, you have talent.

So if you want, you can also do the teaching

department.

So I did both.

And what were you teaching? What was your passion? Ballet? Yeah, ballet.

On that moment it was still ballet.

When I was in