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 OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts