Dance is awesome. That is a fact. There’s something that moves us to want to dance, and there’s something that keeps us doing it and enjoying it and all that’s great. Besides all of those feel-good moments, we also live through a lot of struggles that only dancers can understand. Here’s a list of relatable moments for us dancers.
Feel-Good and Struggle Moments Most Dancers Will Understand
Feel-Good Moments
- Pictures of your dance crew where you are all wearing matching outfits (costumes) and makeup.
- The moment of calm and bliss after finishing the showcase you worked so hard for all year long.
- Hearing a song from a past show that you danced or choreographed to and immediately being brought back to that time (and trying to remember the steps you used to know by heart).
- The moment of lucidity when you finally understand what the lyrics of a certain song are actually saying (and realizing that you’ve been singing it wrong for the longest time).
- Finding the PER-FECT song to choreograph.
- Finally breaking out of your shell and dancing in public and feeling absolutely free.
Struggle Moments
- When you arrive late to class and have absolutely no idea how to catch up fast enough that nobody will notice.
- Freezing up on stage because you totally forgot your solo (or any other part of the choreography)
- Putting on your tights after taking a shower (literally, squeezing yourself into those tights) and then realizing you need to pee.
- The moment you realize you have several costume changes that need to happen in the shortest amount of time during a recital and you’re super excited (or not really).
- When you fall during a performance and you have to get up quickly and pretend like nothing ever happened (poker face).
- When you can’t hit that move with proper technique while your teacher is watching but you nail it the second they look away.
Our studio is going to be closed Thursday, December 22, through Thursday Jan 5, with all classes resuming Sunday, January 8, 2017.