How on earth did Sue become a snake dancer?
Well, she started keeping snakes as pets, and over the years agents had often enquired if she used them within her dance performance. So as her collection of snakes grew larger (along with the size of their bodies), she decided to work with them whilst dancing and at parties.
She now has too many(!) (she takes in rescues too).
They work together allaying public fears; her snakes are ambassadors, showing how affable and harmless they really are towards people, in fact they are the most tolerant beings you could wish to meet and perfectly charming.
Her snake dance performance with snakes is original, created by her snakes. Her partner, George from Odysseus has created a mysterious piece of music for the snake dance; once heard never forgotten.
When snake charming she may bring one, two, three or four!! She can bring smaller snakes for people to pet at meet and greet and save the larger snake for a dance performance later.
What an improvement the snakes made to Sue's dancing!! their slow, sinuous, sensual, sybaritic, slinky, sophisicated, sympathetic, serene, smooth, suave, svelte, swanky, swaying, swerving, soothing, movements taught her an immense amount about control, her moves will never be as great as theirs but she can try. She had to learn to control her body much more than ever before because their welfare was and is paramount and how they felt/feel was/is more important than even the audience!!
She had to totally lose her ego to these wonderful beings and allow them to show her movement at its best and they have been the best tutors she have ever experienced in all of her dancing life.
Young dancers email her asking her how to dance with their snake; allow your snake to teach you that is her answer, feel the experience through your snake and enjoy :-) |
