Love in Motion
You know how there are those things in your life you find yourself doing and sometimes you wonder, "Why am I still doing this?" because they're hard, they're painful, and sometimes you just feel like giving up?
For me, that's dance.
Dance is that thing that I grew up with--my on-again, off-again best-friend-slash-lover that I will never be able to let go of because it is so much part of me that I cannot imagine a life without dancing. I cannot imagine a day without turning off the light switches with my foot when my hands are full, gesturing toward directions with a developpe, and feeling ridiculously awkward in social situations because I choreograph in my head while I'm walking around and it's embarrassing when it's not in my head anymore and I don't even realise (the weird looks I get while I'm dancing around campus are not even surprising anymore).
Dance is the first thing that told me I wasn't good enough, and also the first thing that made me realise that I can be everything I want to be. It taught me how to work hard, it taught me that it's okay to cry sometimes, and it taught me that the only factor between something that's worth fighting for and something that's not is whether or not my heart is in it.
Dance was there for me when I felt like nothing and no one else was, and dance has always, always understood me. Maybe we didn't see eye to eye all the time but it always understood how I felt.
So after a lot of hard work, sleep deprivation, academic stress, and 22-24hour days on campus we are finally arriving at our first performance of the year. It feels something like letting go.
Even though I was grumpy, exhausted, stressed out and extremely disappointed in my academic performance in the past couple of weeks, I still tried my very best to put out 150% in every practice and I am so grateful to have a team of amazing, talented, and dedicated dancers that did the same while they struggled through it all with me. Our mentors, choreographers, and leaders have been an incredible inspiration and I hope they are proud of us tomorrow! I am so grateful that they were willing to defy three fire alarms in a row, 5:30AM treks to DBAC, 2.5, 3, sometimes upwards of 4 hour rehearsals late into the night, and I am so grateful for a team that braved the odds together leading up to this performance.
We can do this--JUST VERVE DANCE. <3
For me, that's dance.
Dance is that thing that I grew up with--my on-again, off-again best-friend-slash-lover that I will never be able to let go of because it is so much part of me that I cannot imagine a life without dancing. I cannot imagine a day without turning off the light switches with my foot when my hands are full, gesturing toward directions with a developpe, and feeling ridiculously awkward in social situations because I choreograph in my head while I'm walking around and it's embarrassing when it's not in my head anymore and I don't even realise (the weird looks I get while I'm dancing around campus are not even surprising anymore).
Dance is the first thing that told me I wasn't good enough, and also the first thing that made me realise that I can be everything I want to be. It taught me how to work hard, it taught me that it's okay to cry sometimes, and it taught me that the only factor between something that's worth fighting for and something that's not is whether or not my heart is in it.
Dance was there for me when I felt like nothing and no one else was, and dance has always, always understood me. Maybe we didn't see eye to eye all the time but it always understood how I felt.
So after a lot of hard work, sleep deprivation, academic stress, and 22-24hour days on campus we are finally arriving at our first performance of the year. It feels something like letting go.
Even though I was grumpy, exhausted, stressed out and extremely disappointed in my academic performance in the past couple of weeks, I still tried my very best to put out 150% in every practice and I am so grateful to have a team of amazing, talented, and dedicated dancers that did the same while they struggled through it all with me. Our mentors, choreographers, and leaders have been an incredible inspiration and I hope they are proud of us tomorrow! I am so grateful that they were willing to defy three fire alarms in a row, 5:30AM treks to DBAC, 2.5, 3, sometimes upwards of 4 hour rehearsals late into the night, and I am so grateful for a team that braved the odds together leading up to this performance.
We can do this--JUST VERVE DANCE. <3