Dancing Through Life...

I've been dancing since I can remember... but more specifically, 16 going on 17 years. Thankfully, there hasn't been a time in my life when I thought to myself, 'I hate this, why am I doing this?'. Which I think is pretty amazing because, also since I can remember, I've been scheduling my life around dance classes, rehearsals, recitals, competitions and so on... Whenever I am invited somewhere and can't go, the response is always, "I can't, I have dance." I have missed out on things like family dinners with my best friends, open houses, girls nights, school functions.... But when I think back on it, as much as I wanted to be there and still wish I could've been there for some of them, they don't seem like major things that I missed out on, the biggest ones were probably 3 of my best friends' open houses this spring. But they understand, they always have.

I can't imagine my life without dance. When I'm tired and don't want to go, as soon as I get there everything changes. My day does a complete 360. I know it's a cliche and as a dancer I hate using this saying, but it's so true! When I'm dancing, I dance my emotions. If I'm in a bad mood, I dance my feelings. There it is. That's it. I dance my feelings. When I'm in a good mood I swear my dancing is better, when I'm having a terrible day, I dance better because I'm getting out the frustration of the day.

When I dance I can see it happening my whole life, in a company, as a teacher, but more than all of that, at Disney. My most recent dream, as of 3 or 4 years, is to dance at Disney World in FL. I want to be a performer. Every time I perform, I'm living! There is nothing better than performing. When you're standing on that dark stage waiting for the hot lights to hit your face the anxious feeling you get right as it's supposed to start is the best. Then, the lights hit you, you vaguely see the faces in the audience starring back at you, the music begins and you start dancing.

I love dancing, I'll do it for as long as I live. That's a promise.