What Dance Is: A Guest Post

 Today I have a guest post from the lovely Emma who blogs at thedancechronicles.blogspot.com

Dance is a tangible way to express intangible thoughts and feelings.  Every specified movement of the hand, every distinct turn of the head, is part of the character you’re playing. Dance is captivating for me because you can imprint emotions on an audience through movement.  It's presented to audiences as a pure art form composed of flawless steps and gravity-defying movements.  

But I've seen--and experienced--first-hand the struggles dancers go through every day.  I see the girls I dance with crying in class or in the hallways as we hug them.  I see them fall on their faces.  I see them fall apart as a muscle or tendon swells to three times it's size.  I see them cry for each other.  I see them dance until they can't breathe, work until they overheat.  I see them come in and many days say, "I don't want to do this," then give everything they have to their teacher.

But I also see them get back up.  Come back.  Go back to class still crying.  Dance through the pain.  Push their leg an inch higher than the highest leg in class, no matter how much it hurts.  Put pointe shoes on bleeding feet.  Pull it together.  Wince and push through it.  Rehearse for several hours.  Keep dancing.

Because a true dancer knows that they can never stop dancing.


Other posts related to dancing you might enjoy:

Beautiful Feet
Dance Shoes
What's in my dance bag?
The History of American Ballet Performances
Ballet Shoes
 

My new dance shoes!!!!!!!!

These are my broken worn out ballet shoes. 

These are my new ones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :~D I love them!!!!! :~D

For the past 5 years I've had to wait for my feet to stop growing and now I finally have my Irish Hard-shoes!!!!!!!! :~D Sooooooooooo excited about these!! :~D 

The Ballet Mirror

What is in my dance bag!?!?!?!

So this is what I have in my dance bag:

A water bottle

Pointe shoe pamphlet

Deodorant (random stuff, thank fully haven't had to use it!)

Baby powder

Hello Kitty tin with bobby pins and hair ties

Studio key

Ace ankle braces

Homemade scrunchie

Bun cover, pins, and hair tie set

Black ballet stockings

Homemade hand cream

Ballet Essay 

Papers for the library I set up at the dance studio

A notebook for writing ideas

Old dance newsletters

A fun foam Christmas tree

A blue pen

That is all the stuff from the outside pockets of my bag!

On the inside:

My Ballet flats size 9 (leather)

Pointe shoes and padding (Gaynor Mindens) size 9

Inhaler and "Aero chamber"

Ghillies for Irish Step size 9

Spool of thread

Size 1 kids ballet flats (leather)

Size 11 kids ballet flats (leather)

Size 9 kids ballet flats (leather)

Random Walmart ballet flats size 11 kids

Size 13 kids tap shoes

Size 7 1/2 kids tap shoes

Tap shoes size 9 (mine)

Random hair tie

Random black bun cover

A pink feather

And I have 5 Cds:

• Mary Poppins
• The Piano Guys
• The Sound of Music
• White Christmas
• Disney's Cinderella 

I should also have a pair of black ballet shoes, but I'm not sure where they went.

:~)

And it all fits in this bag! :~D

What is in YOUR dance bag or sports bag? 

In which I make a sad face :( and ramble :)

Our point 'n' shoot camera has died.

Alas poor camera, I knew thee well.

It died the same death the other 2 cameras died: lens error.

No more home movies. :( 

Other than the camera dying the only other thing that would be interesting to blog about is my ankle braces.

I think I pulled a muscle in them when I did Irish Step on Tuesday, not major just sore.

I knew my black ballet shoes would come in handy someday! 

(Courtesy of Dad's camera last night! :~D)

Oh! And school started this week for us! I just need to locate my school planner to know what I'm doing. I don't have a dog to blame lost schoolwork on, so can I blame the cat?