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Dance-Personal Narrative

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I am a naturally happy person. I like holding hands, grinning ear-to-ear, laughing till I cry. I've always hated sadness because I feel like I'm bringing others down, and I never want that.
When I got selected to Dance for my spring PFO arts experience this year, naturally, I was excited. This quickly changed, however, when I walked into the doors of our rehearsal space and it dawned on me that this wasn't dancing around the house by myself: this was a real dance, in front of real people, for a nonprofit organization with a major impact in the community. I wasn't smiling anymore. As we did a few across-the-floor exercises on the first day, I just felt awkward, nervous, and scared. In my head, I was imagining everyone watching me and thinking

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