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As you might imagine, I'm absolutely passionate about dance.
你們能想象到，我對舞蹈充滿了熱情。
I'm passionate about making it, about watching it, about encouraging others to participate in it, and I'm also really passionate about creativity.
我熱衷于編舞，看別人跳舞，鼓勵他人參與到舞蹈中來，我同樣對創造力充滿了激情。
Creativity for me is something that's absolutely critical, and I think it's something that you can teach.
創造力對我來說是至關重要的，我認為創造力是可以教的。
I think the technicities of creativity can be taught and shared,
我認為創造力的技術細節是可以教的，也可以被分享，
and I think you can find out things about your own personal physical signature, your own cognitive habits, and use that as a point of departure to misbehave beautifully.
我認為你可以找到你自己的標志性動作，你自己的認知習慣，并以此為起點優美地去“不守規矩”。
I was born in the 1970s, and John Travolta was big in those days: "Grease," "Saturday Night Fever,"
我是一個七零后，那時候約翰·特拉沃爾塔是大明星，他的《油脂》、《周末夜狂熱》很出名，
and he provided a fantastic kind of male role model for me to start dancing.
他給了我一個男性舞者的最好榜樣，讓我開始習舞。
My parents were very up for me going. They absolutely encouraged me to take risks, to go, to try, to try.
我父母非常支持我。他們絕對鼓勵我去冒險，去努力，去嘗試，不斷地嘗試。
I had an opportunity, an access to a local dance studio,
我當時有個機會，進了一間本地的舞蹈培訓班，
and I had an enlightened teacher who allowed me to make up my own and invent my own dances,
有一位開明的啟蒙老師她允許我自己編排，創造自己的舞蹈，
so what she did was let me make up my own ballroom and Latin American dances to teach to my peers.
她讓我自己編排舞廳舞和拉丁舞的節目并教給同學們。
And that was the very first time that I found an opportunity to feel that I was able to express my own voice, and that's what's fueled me, then, to become a choreographer.
那就是我生平頭一次有機會感受到自己有能力表達自己的聲音，這成了之后我想做編舞的動力。
I feel like I've got something to say and something to share.
我感到自己有東西要說，要分享。
And I guess what's interesting is, is that I am now obsessed with the technology of the body.
它的有趣之處在于，也是讓我為之沉迷的是人體技術。
I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have,
我認為這是我們擁有的最具技術文明的東西，
and I'm absolutely obsessed with finding a way of communicating ideas through the body to audiences that might move them, touch them, help them think differently about things.
我一門心思想要找到一種方法，能通過肢體語言與觀眾交流，能夠帶動他們，感動他們，幫助他們轉變思維和觀念。
