Ria Mae ♒🇵🇭✨

DMC IS THE PLACE TO BE! It has been about a week and I am still so giddy, joyous, and grateful looking at clips of the Fall 2025 #dancemarathonchallenge. When we started this SIX years ago, I led with the credo that DANCE WILL ALWAYS BE MY HOME BASE. And it truly has gotten me through and brought me so much in life.

From being my bond to mother to my way of moving through losing her and ultimately my father as well. Bringing me some of the most special people in my life and some of my biggest lessons. Discovering excellence in what my body can do, also accepting its limitations, and taking me through so many iterations of this vessel. Being the base when the rug has gotten pulled from under me, when my heart was breaking, and when I felt most alone. And being the purest joy and way of channelling and being in flow with my highest.

DMC has been our piece of pie that has helped express all those extremes and back. With the blend of me and Laura's similar but different movement styles and energy that we fill into the room. It really reminds me of the best parts of being in a company and asks everyone to pull out so many parts of their body and expression. What a gift! Happy 6 DMC.

1 - 🧠: ME! @riamae121
"Just Keep Watching" by Tate McCrae

2 - 🧠: @laura.nonyelum.hayes
"Dance Again"by Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull
💃: @jupiterinscorpio , @kellerperry

#dance #create #storyteller #flow #homebase #choreography #movement #lines #nyc #openjarstudios #justkeepwatching #tatemccrae #danceagain #jlo #pitbull