Dance, Dance..
So I guess I should tell you that I’m a dancer. I have been for the last 11 years of my life. It seems like the second I put on those ballet slippers, they weren’t gonna come off. But since I’ve moved a few times, it has been hard to stay at whatever level I was before I moved. For example, before I moved to Costa Rica, and lived in El Salvador, I was in a competitive dance academy that had won several trophy’s, medals, and awards for their outstanding competetive dancing, and I was part of that group. But when I moved here to Costa Rica, it has changed so much. I don’t dance at the level that I used to, which can be depressing at times because supposedly you advance as you get older, not go down on the “dancer’s scale.” The thing is, if I do want to enter the competetive dance group here, I have to basically dedicate my life to dancing, but I do have a social life, and of course school and homework… So why keep dancing?Let’s just put it this way. If I stop dancing, life would be miserable for me. Its like trying to quit a drug or alcohol addiction; nearly impossible. I would just never be happy; I’d have no way of releasing my energy or emotions. And that is what dance is to me. Without it, I’d probably be so stressed out, I would start getting grey hair. Dancing has always been a way to channel my emotions. If I were angry, I would dance aggresively, and if I were excited or happy I would dance with positive energy. I just hope that I’ll be able to do this for a LONG time. As long as I possibly can. Because dancing is worth breaking a leg.
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Hey! I had no idea you were so dedicated to dancing! What type of dance is this?
Posted March 27, 2008, 5:00 pmI’d love to see you
WOW I can tell you PASSIONATELY “kiss it with love”…lmao…larry.
. It’s great to have something that you love to do and YES, life would be MISERABLE. I totally feel you.
Anyways, I feel you. I don’t dance ballet or jazz, but I know how it feels to have something to express yourself, its AMAZING huh? You may already know that I love playing the piano. It is the same situation with your dancing, it would kill me if everything in my memory was erased and I suddenly forget how to play piano or my hands get chopped off (hurts to think about it) or I become deaf, blind, or paralyzed. Ok, I’m getting off topic, sorry, I talk a lot
I also wanted to mention something else. “Supposedly you advance as you get older, not go down on the ‘dancer’s scale.’” When you said this, I thought to myself. Can you go get worst at something? In my opinion, you can in some situations. But I was also wondering that maybe you didn’t go down the “dancer’s scale”. I think that your just staying there for quite a while. What do you think?
Posted March 27, 2008, 5:13 pmMan I felt the same way when you talked about getting worse or dancing at a lower level. Before I moved here, I was on the swim team at my old place for about two years and I was pretty good. I got first place in races and stuff. But now I’m really bad, and swim really slow and it’s not fun for me anymore. I don’t know why that happened. Oh well.
I think that’s really cool that you do dance. I also grey hair is sort of cool. If I had grey hair I would look crazy and weird.
Posted March 31, 2008, 7:31 amI totally agree with you.. I feel you!! hahahha
Posted April 1, 2008, 4:22 pmLet me tell you something.. When I moved to Costa Rica, I didn’t dance for a few months because I was settling in and looking for a place to dance. When I found my academy, I went there and I noticed how bad I had gotten. You see, in dance, if you don’t keep practicing, you lose flexibility, technique, and skills. But maybe its different in piano. You don’t get worse when you stop playing an instrument, you just don’t advance. But dancing is different. If you don’t practice, you lose everything that you had gotten used to. Maybe you don’t completely lose your flexibility, but its not as good as it was before. And as you continue practicing, then you’ll start to improve again. And once you got to the level you were at before, then you begin to advance again. I’m not saying that you become so terrible that you have to start from zero, but you can’t necesarily start where you were at before. You understand??