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1/7/2021
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."-Mata Hari
Every time I have someone over to spend the night or just to have dinner, we do some form of a "dance party," whether it be after dinner in the living room with YouTube videos playing, or at night with my disco ball and Spotify account. Many times there will be that one person who says the famous "I can’t dance." Hearing that sentence makes me laugh. The definition of dance is "to move rhythmically to music..."- Oxford Dictionaries. Dancing is moving to music —-that's all it is. It's not always the choreographed routine in the matching costumes. It’s whatever you make it.
Now I have been studying dance for 10 years--every style from Ballet to Hip-Hop —since I was 2. Because of this, people sometimes feel uncomfortable dancing around me. This is silly because when I'm not in a class, I definitely don’t follow any routines or dance specific moves. I just dance. I think the best dancers I have ever meet are 3-and 4-year-olds They don’t care about how they look when they dance; they just spin and shake their heads and have a good time. People older than they seem to care way too much about how they look or if people are watching them. Those people just need to let it go.
This is not a very good picture. It's kind of blurry, but this is my first day of dance class. I was two years old and the youngest and shortest girl in my class. At this point in time, my studio didn't even have a building yet and we had to do classes in the multipurpose room at the library. We weren't there very long before we found a building. It was a beat-up old office building that's only doorway was through an alleyway. After about five years there we moved out of the alleyway and into an old church building. This was the same year I joined the performance team. Every year since then we have traveled to different festivals in Indiana to perform. That is, every year except this year. This year many of the festivals have been canceled, so there was no point in having a performance team.
Just last year,our studio moved to a new building because the owners of the old church decided they would rather use the space for an art gallery. We just recently moved into the old Peters Revington building. The owners of my studio are building us a new building of our own so we will not have to bounce around from place to place.
A few months after my first night of dance class came my first recital. That year we performed at Camp Tecumseh. The theme was “Holidays” and my group performed a dance to the song Turkey in the Straw for Thanksgiving.
This picture shows my Turkey costume. I was so small they had to order specially to get my costume to fit me because the company didn't carry it in my size. I still have this outfit in my costume closet.
This shows how small I was compare to everyone else in my class. Only one other girl in this photo besides me dances at our studio now.
his is now my 10th year of dance. Of course with a global pandemic,dance has been different this year. No definite recital date. Masks during class. It’s a struggle, it really is, but we managed to work through it for our 10th anniversary of the studio. I have much much more to share about my dance experiences. This is why Dancing through life will have many other parts to play considering it is such a very important aspect of my life.
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