A Princess : An Athlete

I feel that to live the life of a dancer the vital thing to have determination to battle many of the obstacles they will be facing, as it is clear that dance is in a low ranked compared to other art forms as “a professional dancer falls into the category of a highly skilled, sought after employee in a high risk profession” but yet is still not paid as much as an actor who has a stunt double to perform any parts deemed dangerous .Despite these setbacks a dancer should always remember why they got into dance in the first place and let that be their momentum to push them further in their

Dance is not only a form of art or a physical activity, but a means of expressing yourself. Through dance, I gained confidence, courage, patience, and other valuable qualities, now all fused into my identity. I have danced for the past 10 years, consistently training every week, persevering through the

I have been dancing since the age of two. When asked about my career aspirations, there is no hesitation before saying “I want to be a dancer.” Being a dancer means putting all other distractions aside, and focusing on my craft. Currently, I dedicate over forty hours a week to dance, which is a schedule that requires sacrifice. When I am dancing, the rest of the world fades away, slipping out of my mind with relaxed importance. For that moment in time, I am completely free, wholly focused on my goals, letting me know dance is what I’m meant to do. With this realization comes a responsibility to myself and the work I have put into improving my craft thus far, and I know I must seek out the best opportunities for growth and continued learning.

Since I was three years old, dance has been a passion of mine. Throughout elementary school, I tried many other activities, however, I never enjoyed anything as much as I enjoyed dance. In my fourteen years of dancing, I have learned to work with a team and to use constructive criticism in a positive way. Also, I have learned that hard work leads to performance.

Dance is one of the major things that defines my identity and it is an interest that had become so meaningful, that without it my application would be incomplete. This has been able to shape me throughout the years, from discipline and maturity all the way yo leadership and teamwork. I find dance as an art work, that it is easy to make mistakes and fall, you just have to learn from those mistakes and get up twice as strong as from where you started. Dance is to look above and beyond and just let everything fall into place without hesitation.

I really love dancing, and I wouldn’t know what I would do without it. I feel like dance has changed me a lot, because I used to be a huge couch potato, and I was super lazy. Don’t get me wrong, I still get really lazy from time to time, but not as much as I used to. I have bad anxiety, and when I’m with my dance group I feel like it helps me lose it a little, piece by piece because they don’t judge me for who I am. I also feel like dance has made me watch my weight more and exercise so I don’t have any problems in the

My mother once told me I was born to dance. Ballet, jazz, and hip hop nourished me from the time I was three years old. Whether helping my parents clean or walking in the grocery store, my feet sashayed beneath me to an unknown rhythm. Some of my earliest memories occur in a small studio in a converted barn, where I spent hours at the barre. Unlike performance schools depicted on reality television, my dance studio required less excessive makeup and more polished black leotards and pink tights (we did, however, have a fair share of screaming stage moms).

I had just moved to Washington state and I auditioned for the local dance studio’s competition team for fun. I had no idea how talented they were. And I was just an untrained recreational dancer…Not surprisingly, I didn’t earn a coveted spot on the team it the first time I auditioned. That didn’t stop me from training seriously and auditioning for the team each year until I made it. And here I stand, now starting on my sixth year on the team and as one of the last people from my original team who decided not to quit when they started high school. Dance isn’t just twirling around in pretty pink tutus. What the general population doesn’t picture when they think of dance is the tremendous amount of strenuous work and the blood and sweat and tears that goes into every performance and competition. Certain dancers can’t handle it and quit when they realize they don’t have the passion. My passion keeps me living and breathing and most importantly, dancing, when times get

Everything has good sides and bad sides, but I would say that dance had very extreme good sides and very extreme bad sides. I was not very confident as a child, and the fact that I had two dance teachers, Jennifer and Jeanette, who would constantly put me down only made it worse. The problem with my teachers was that they had a group of girls at my dance studio that they favored over everyone else. I would get yelled at for things that they would never get yelled at for such as doing a dance move incorrectly, and I would always be placed in the back. I kind of got used to hearing the mean voice in the front yell “Hannah, what are you doing? Stop doing that!” I have a vivid memory of one of my friends doing a move

As women, we our taught by family member and society, that we always need to look our best. To be on the best behavor. Yet it is not for us but for the opposite sex. That women are mainly here for male enjoyment. We are also taught that we must be passive and smart but not smarter than males. A woman cannot be too aggressive because no man will want to be with her. Women can not beat a male at anything because we are not supposed to be tuffer than males. In sports males are prided on the aggressive and strength. Yet women athletes are not because the world still criticize women old fashion gender role. If you are a female athlete, you cannot win because the word brings you down by ones looks. In the website, Sport Sister, they show women athletes

When I am dancing just freely I feel like I am in a vulnerable place for people to see my emotions. It is a natural way to release built up stress and almost like surrender to the world. So much internal thoughts are being heard, but dancing is a way to surrender those forbidden thoughts.

My senior year I got into band and became a majorette.Being a majorette had changed a lot of things it pushes me to keep everything up and together.When I dance I stop thinking about all my problems.I let them out and it's just for once the world make sense and everything is better.I feel that without dancing sometimes I can over stress myself and make things harder than there

I began dancing when I was three years old and have loved every minute of it. For me, dance is an outlet. Whenever I dance it feels like nothing else matters. It makes me forget about all of the things that had been troubling me and gives me a safe place to be myself.

I was never really much of a dancer. At a young age, my movements were always stiff and slow and never matched the beat. It was hard enough that I could not dance, it was even harder on me when people pointed out that flaw, despite what people thought, I kept dancing because it became my thing.

Dance has been apart of my life ever since I can remember. When I was young, before I officially started my dance training, I was always up on my feet and moving. No matter what hobby I took interest in (whether it was cheerleading, musical theatre, or jump rope), I would always find a way to choreograph little routines a show them to my friends and family. Even when my parents tried to put me in sports, I would do cartwheels and dance on the playing fields, completely oblivious to what was going on during the games. When I look back at how I started my dance training, I just smile and laugh because I was so naïve and unaware that it would become such a huge part of my life. In 5th grade I was put into my first dance class as a hobby. It happened because I watched the Disney Channel movie High School Musical and immediately fell in love with it. I showed the movie to my parents and told them, “This is what I want to do.” At the time I thought I excelled in both signing and acting and that all I needed were dance classes. So in 4th grade I was put into my first dance class and I began to scratch the surface of the basics of dance. What I didn’t know then is that dance would slowly but surely influence my entire life and