Article: I Sweat Cherry Juice

[Guest guest]

[This article was written by my friend, Tonya Kay, a raw vegan athlete/

dancer/actress]

 

 

I Sweat Cherry Juice

 

By Tonya Kay

Friday, 03 April 2009

 

Signing autographs in a different time zone each week. Waking early to

make small talk on morning radio. Snarling as a dirty, corset-wearing

character in front of thousands of shrieking teenagers from a sold-out

stage at Madison Square Garden. Sometimes even I think it's play. But

it's my job.

 

I've been dancing professionally for 17 years. I was stretching splits

at age seven. I was tapping time steps under my seat in kindergarten.

I was counting crunches in the womb (or at least that's what mom said

it felt like). And sometimes even I have to remind myself of the

broken rib cartilage, torn hamstrings and transverse fasciae latae

insertion tendonitis to remember that professional dance isn't all

passion and play. It's a job. And it's a sport.

…

Fondly, they called me 'rabbit' and I set out without precedence and

without doubt that if there were a way to eat raw vegan on the road

while performing the most physically strenuous show of my life, then I

would find a way.

 

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