Dance might be just a movement of a person’s feet and body for others. But to me, it means more than that. Dance is an art, a way of expressing your thoughts through your body involving perfect posture, unstoppable practice, and confidence. Gerald Graff’s, “Hidden Intellectualism” mentions that intellect does not only exist in academic form of thinking. Non-academic subjects should be apart of intellect because knowledge can also take the form of street smarts. It was during summer vacation of junior high school when I started to dance.
My cousin’s wedding was in about a month and I had to think of dance steps, songs, choosing dance partners. It was not easy as it seemed like it was. Making dance steps out of a song and following the
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Dance is so much more than how many times you can twirl or high you can jump. Dance allows us to tell our stories in the most basic and truthful way. I agree with Graff’s, “Hidden Intellectualism” because Graff argues that school related subjects are less known knowledgeable than subjects that are in interest. He uses the term street smarts over power book smarts because students who have a more understanding on a topic they have interest in than academic subjects intend to do good. The less the students know about a subject they are not interested in bore them which attempts them to do poorly. Dance is my interest of topic that I have a good understanding of, like the types of dances, the benefits of dance and what it can do. Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism” relates to my interest in dance because I know the structures of dance, I know how hard it is at first but with a little bit of effort everything gets better, I know what dance requires. I have more knowledge about dance than maybe any other subject. Just like how Graff mentions that school related subjects aren’t the only thing that exists in intellectual world. Outside of school based subjects can attract students to do the work and that can stop students from doing