Beyond the mid-life crisis

Growing older doesn’t have to mean abandoning a career but when your body is your instrument, it does require adjustment.
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Nat Cursio Co’s Tiny Slopes. Image: Gregory Lorenzutti.​

Dancer and choreographer Nat Cursio jokes that, because she was an artist, she went down a slightly different route when she had a mid-life crisis. Rather than splashing out on an expensive car when she turned 40, she bought a skateboard instead.

‘I used to say it’s the poor artist’s version of a red Ferrari. Learning to skate at 40, yeah –  when you’re poor that’s what you do,’ she laughed.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts