What's Your Element? Ticket Contest

What your ELEMENT?

Catalyst is holding a contest to win FREEEE tickets to The 5th Element on Wednesday, May 5th at Six Degrees.

Send us what YOUR Element is? What's your superpower? Your gift that you share with the world? Are you a Ninja with some Lethal Grace? A Firestarter with Contagious Spark? A Soul Sistah with unwavering faith??? Look within and let us know what you bring to the world and the Character that YOU are.

Send your Element and your story to info@catalystthecompany.com to win FREEEEE Tickets to the Show!!

Get your tickets NOW to the most Enticing Dance Show Toronto has seen! Escape from the every day, bring your friends, get down, and let's DAAAAANCE!

Get your Tickets to The 5th Element!!!

Taking that risk....

Thoughts from "Beast" 

When I stop and look at the life I’ve lived, it already amazes me. I’ve seen beauty, adventure, freedom, and experienced moments that would take any ones breath away. I’m living life exactly how I pictured it and for that, I am truly thankful. I am living my dream.

      It’s amazing how different Reality and Dreams are. They are completely opposite worlds. Reality can get you by one day at a time, but it is your Dreams that push you out and beyond. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always had that one dream.  As I grew up, it appeared even more. It never stopped. It came to life when I moved to Toronto two years ago. That dream was Dance.

      I believe in life that you should never settle for anything less of what you want. A back up plan is safe but is it what you desired? Another path is convenient but is it where you wanted to be? The answer is up to you. I live life knowing that it is not a dress rehearsal.  You only have one shot to live life exactly how you imagined it. Taking the safe way isn’t satisfying when you know there is something else out there your heart is reaching for.

I have a Ferocious Desire for performing.  My mind, body, and soul screamed for it and although there were risks, I listened.  At this moment in time, I can fully say that taking that risk was the best decision of my life.

Dance is and always will be that dream that takes me to the places in my life where I see beauty, adventure, and freedom.  Like the burning heat of the fire, my flame will never settle for nothing less than what I truly desire.  It is who I was then, who I am now, and exactly who I will be in the future. I will never stop.  That's me. 

That Feeling...

Thoughts from "Cool Chic" 

I’ve never really been able to put into words how I feel about being a dancer.  How can you verbalize a sensation that can only be expressed through movement? Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about the question “Why do you dance?”  Most dancers you ask have an answer, the most common being something about self expression or the high of performing.  Usually when confronted with that question by somebody, I make up some bullshit to give them what they want to hear.  However, when confronting myself with the question, the only truthful answer I can find is that I actually don’t know. 

I do know that I have a thirst for perfection when working that spans all aspects of my life.  I crave clean lines, sharp angles, the perfectly arched foot.  I love that as a dancer you’re working with limitless possibilities of perfection.  For even the best dancers, there’s always room for higher legs and sharper turns. 

I also know that by nature I am a fidgety person.  God give patience to whoever has to sit beside me on long train rides!  While my mind can stay focused on one task, my body, my absorbing aura, needs to be in constant motion to stay satisfied so maybe dance is an outlet to expel my tension.

There’s also the obvious reason, like every dancer on this planet, I love to perform.  Go ahead and stare, I welcome your eyes on me and the challenge of keeping you interested.  However selfish it may seem, what I love about performance is not being able to reach out and touch your emotions, but being in touch with mine.  Like the flying freedom of the air, it’s a feeling that goes beyond the stage.  There’s nothing comparable to that feeling of seamlessly connecting one practiced move to the next whether it’s on stage, in the studio, or in your head as you’re walking down the street. 

At the end of the day, the only answer to the question “Why do you dance?” that makes any sense to me is just to feel that feeling.  It doesn’t happen all the time.  It can be fleeting and infuriatingly unpredictable but when you feel it, it really is something else.  That’s the best I could ever possibly do to describe it.  Those who know just know.

I hope to see you all at The 5th Element so I can just save all the words and show you what I mean. 

Mark your calendars.  You don't want to to anywhere else but at "The 5th Element" on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010.