THE Open 2023 - Philippe and Flore Berne - Pregnancy Classic Routine

The Open this year is a different challenge for us. As we process our big news, we wanted to share our routine, and what it means to us. We love you and this beautiful commnunity more than you know. ❤️
Flore's Message :
"One more month, that’s what I wanted! 🥺
Outfit is done, routine is ready, excitation is there. But the news I didn’t wanted to have, that I feared the most being pregnant with twins, just arrived 😢
We have a placenta praevia, meaning they advise us not to travel and to stop dancing 😭
I know I should focus on “the babies and I are healthy” , but the only things I hear is “NO MORE DANCING”
If you know me, you know it’s something that I can’t do : Stop dancing!
When we first discovered, that we will have twins, my biggest fear was, the doctors will ask me to stop and rest. But I am lucky to have a beautiful pregnancy, and we decided to turn this unexpected news in something good and create something special! ♥️
This routine, knowing that I will continue to dance until the open, was my acceptance of the big news: Twins. That’s what I wanted, dancing until the end of November, share my love for dance, connect with people…
As a woman, I feel it’s really hard for us, when you want dance to be your career, to decide when to have kids? Will you be able to continue your passion through pregnancy? To continue to dance after that…?
And if I share my biggest fear with you, it’s because I am afraid that having kids will make us, ME, less relevant for you, for event directors… That no one will continue to watch us, to want to have us…
So this routine, the possibility to go until the end of the goal, was my way to share with the world, that pregnancy is not an illness, we (women) are capable of a lot of things, I wanted to inspire people, to touch people. I wanted to give it all, I was not able to dance with other people during my first pregnancy because of Covid, so it was also my revenge on these 2 hard years for dancers.
So it’s with a big regret, a lot of tears, that I have to accept this news, I will need days, weeks to fully accept it and feel better mentally!
I was not able to go to Tampa Bay Classic 2023 - NASDE & WSDC event and dance, we are not at Westie Pink City this weekend, going to US Open Swing Dance Championship is probably not a wise decision but I can’t take the decision right now, I need baby steps to slowly watch my project go to ashes.
I will continue to dance the most I can, I will share our dances because I need it to heal and accept.
Thank you to the people who knew and reached out to me, it’s still difficult, and I have a hard time to think about it without crying. I will see you all soon on the dancefloor! "
Thank you to Simon Girard for the Video and the editing, as well as a big thank you for all the people that helped us on this routine, Gary McIntyre and Robert Royston, Tatiana Mollman, Benji Schwimmer, Kyle Redd, Jakub Jakubek and Emeline Rochefeuille.
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