Dance

When I was little, I wanted to be a ballerina, like all little girls.  However, my mom was a ballet teacher and owned her own pre-professional ballet school.  I started taking lessons when I was 3 and never really appreciated it as an art form until I became a teenager.  Now, I see classical dance as an expressive form of art that takes true talent.  I realize that professional dancers train for years, working all day every day on perfecting their talent.  While I loved dance, I wanted to be an engineer, so I focused on my studies, but dance was always something that I loved doing.

In my opinion, ballet is one of the most boring things to watch as a dance style, unless it's an allegro.  However, when you see a ballerina doing something, anything, slowly, you see each and every muscle work.  It takes so much time and effort to hone the abilities needed to be an amazing dancer.  When you watch a ballerina perform, just the things she can do are amazing.  The flexibility and strength they must have is amazing.  When it is put together with choreography, a beautiful piece of work is created.

I love dancing and always will.  I love to perform mostly.  Something about being on the stage and getting to show off is more fun than you would think.  The more I write this blog, the more I want to go back and take a ballet class.  Also, I'm going to brag.  This is me when I was little.  Like I said, I've been doing it for a long time. I'm the one on the right.

And I'm on the left in this one:

Dance has always been a part of my life and with my mother as my ballet teacher, I grew up learning about the greats and going to the Russian ballet.  This art form has always been a part of my life, and it will be for years to come.