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I’m Ira Siobahn I’m studying dance and I’m a dancer.
I’ve know that I’ve had dyslexia since I was about seven years old. I was quite worried to come in to do a degree course but they reassured me that there’d be a lot of support there and ways we can work around it.
I basically fell in love with dance when I was training here and I started putting all my heart into dance and I just felt like it had a lot more depth and there was so many more elements to dance and it just keeps on moving.
When we came to Open day and there was a woman called Pauline Fitzmorris, dyslexic support , and my mum basically approached her and asked her what is the support like ’cause we were both very concerned. And she was really reassuring us because she’s had so many people who need support because there’s a lot of people who if you are dyslexic , go into dance like I have and so that’s when we decided well we’ve got a bit of confidence and that’s why I went for it.
When it came to the first time of doing ballet and we were doing like tendues, where it’s kind of like with the feet you go front, side, back. For me that kind of makes sense but soon as they’d go like front, back, front, side for me it felt academic. That’s the only word I could think of, or mathematical. Kind of like a grid or some kind of numbers for me. I found I really really difficult to pick up but I just knew if I could get it then I would improve so much more.
I love ballet now and if dance actually keeps my interest and I can find new ways and new things then that’s amazing. And that’s when I thought this is definitely going to do.