I have been dancing for four years now and know for a fact that dancing is a sport. Dancers practice everyday to improve like other sports. I have danced before but it was not as serious until I joined Color Guard my freshman year. Color Guard was mainly contemporary and ballet.
The instructor and students were Sri Lankan, and the class was taught in Sinhalese, my first language. We danced to traditional songs, and I felt connected to my family and ancestors in Sri Lanka. However, when I entered high school, the only dance class available was a combination of traditional American dances: jazz, ballet and tap. I enrolled in this class, where I was the only Sri Lankan. Over the school year, I began to realize that all types of dance are a form of expression that tell stories and communicate feelings.
She began dancing at a very young age when she attended the Judimar School of Dance. She began to believe that she didn’t want to be a dancer being a dancer is something she needed to do. While attending this school she studied both ballet and modern dance. She then attended Fisk University where she studies Psychology for three semesters and then left to return to her hometown to attend the Philadelphia Dance Academy. At the Philadelphia Dance Academy she studied in addition to dance, kinesiology, dance history, and labanotation; which is the structured dance notation.
This summer, I had to turn my back on something that has been close with me since I was eight. My dance studio closed, I had been going there since I was eight. To be honest, when I first started, I was terrible. But weren’t we all when we first started the sport that we loved? Six years later, I am still dancing and even more than I had when I first started.
An interest I am most proud of is my career in competitive gymnastics. When I first began gymnastics, I did it recreationally, but I soon fell in love with it and decided to compete. I am now into my fourth competition season. I have competed at meets all over California, and have practiced hundreds of hours. Gymnastics requires hard work and dedication, but it is worth it because I genuinely love the sport.
I was waiting for my turn to go out into the gym and tryout for the school cheerleading team. I don’t think I have ever been that nervous before. The girl that was in front of me was coming back from the gym, and it was now my turn. I was going to try out for the school cheer squad. I have never done cheer before so it was nerve-racking.
No idea. You really can dance," I said. "I have a kid sister that 's only in the goddam fourth grade. You 're about as good as she is, and she can dance better than anybody living or dead."(Chapter 10, page 71-72)
for the first two years I always complained “It's so boring” and stuff like “don't force me to go again” but I got my stubbornness from my parents, so I kept going. It took a long time for me to stop complaining and realize that nothing is really “girly”. It wasn't until my fourth year that i realized it was something i really enjoyed. the dance shoppe has weekly hour long classes, usually just practicing, learning new steps, and combos and stuff. Then once it hits christmas break, we start to learn our dance.
Having a passion for dance on top of having years of experience from drill team, my decision seemed destined. After becoming friends with a girl in one of my classes that was also an exotic dancer, I became instantly intrigued and auditioned at the same club she danced
I smile and hit my first pose, and all my self-doubt vanishes. Years of training have prepared me for this moment. I have been a dancer since I was five years old. When I was in the sixth grade, I joined my studio’s performing company and the Louisiana Delta Ballet, and my passion grew. I hardly ever miss a class, even though my studio is an hour away and classes are five times a week.
In our eighth grade classroom we were asked to take a quiz that would recommend some career clusters for us based on our likes and skills. We would then pick a career that interested us and research it. For the final part we would find someone in that career to interview about it. Going into this project I knew that I would pick being a dancer considering this is my first year in the junior company which is a company that Grand Rapids Ballet offers to let it’s students get a taste of what company life tastes like. So far I have really enjoyed junior company and it’s definitely something
Whether it is politics or religion there are many issues that divide people into separate camps of beliefs with each side believing that they are in the right and the other group(s) are in the wrong and, even though it doesn’t affect the majority of the Earth’s population, dance has been one of these topics. Many people believed that dance is solely an art form meant for self-expression and the expression of social issues others have viewed it as sport that is good for your health due to the amount of physical exertion it requires. Within the past couple of decades, these ideas have begun to merge into a more solid truth of what dance really is, an athletic art form or as Albert Einstein famously said, “Dancers are the athletes of God”. The journey to this understanding of dance began many
Dance is my life. Take it away from me and I’m nothing. So no, I don’t love ballet; I am alive because of it. Ballet is how I live.” (Brittany Seaborg, a fifteen year old ballerina).
A good friend of mine from school, Alexa, had always talked to me about how much she loved this studio and how great the people were there. I had danced when I was younger but left the sport to plays soccer for several years. Dance was always within me, and it finally came to the point that I knew I wanted to continue to do what I previously had loved. I decided to go to the fall open house and check out the dance studio. My heart was pounding and butterflies flurried in my stomach
“What happened? You almost did it. Are you okay?” My teammates surrounded me immediately. I could not say a single word.
