ABC Dance- AnyBody Can Dance
- Life's Whispers
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min read
As a 3-year-old, I started skating. In my 1st few sessions, I couldn't roll. I took longer than most others. My coach told my parents, that I had a very firm body, one he struggles to develop with advanced skaters.... but something he didn't want me to have at this moment...he wanted me to let loose, let go. It took a while.
Meanwhile, in a conversation with a friend, my parents realized that ballet required a stiff body...I had one.... and my Journey with Dance Began!
Ballet is all about using movement to express music and illuminate human emotion and endeavor.
For example, Swan Lake, Op. 20, which is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76 expresses romance and tragedy. Swan Lake is the love story of Prince Siegfried, who on a hunting trip encounters a flock of swans, falls in love with the Swan Queen, Odette, and swears his allegiance and undying love to her. As a result of a curse by the evil sorcerer Baron von Rothbart, Odette can only take human form between midnight and daybreak.


A few years into ballet, my parents felt that I did need to loosen up a bit.... express myself a lot more. I moved from Ballet to contemporary.
Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe. Contemporary dance stresses versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict, structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dancers focus on floorwork, using gravity to pull them down to the floor.


The word “emotion” comes from the Latin word “emovere” which means to move, move through or move out. Dance is a form of expression, of feelings, of emotions. Dance is like living a dream with your feet. For me, dance is one way to completely let loose and express myself without having to explain myself to anyone. There is so much one can express through dance. Whether it be joy, love, pain, grief anything at all. Anybody can dance, it doesn’t matter whether one is technically trained or not. Just grooving to music helps in so many ways. The biggest benefit that comes to mind is that while we dance our brain releases endorphins, hormones that trigger neurotransmitters that create a feeling of comfort, relaxation, fun, and power.
For me, dance has always been a form of letting go, A way of expressing myself, and a manner in which I feel happy and at ease.
Every moment spent on the dance floor, I am saying something, expressing something. It is a feeling like no other.
Dance is for everybody.
Dance is the joy of movement and the heart of life.
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