Descriptive Experience In School

Traveling is one of my family’s favorite things to do. The family has visited numerous places throughout the United States, however, none are as memorable as Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, there are many places to go and sights to see such as: Cola-cola factory, Cabbage Patch Kids Factory, Under Ground Mall, the Zoo, Atlanta Braves Stadium, Six Flags Over Georgia, Stone Mountain Park, and the Atlanta Aquarium, are all in or near the city of Atlanta. The three that we visit on every trip to Atlanta are Six Flags, Stone Mountain, and the Atlanta Aquarium.

I stopped mid-step and millions of thoughts rushed through my head. What was she going to say to me? Was she going to yell at me for not being able to do the turn? Was she going to take me out of the dance? I had never been so nervous at dance before and I felt a sense of uneasiness come over my whole body as I walked towards her.

Being the painfully shy child I was, I fought her. I dreaded walking up those never-ending narrow stairs for the first few classes. I was deathly afraid of my instructor, a complete stranger, and I did not know over half of the words that were said during class. Slowly, friendships formed and I figured out what actions the French words went with. Throughout the years I have switched dance studios two times, been on four different teams, competed, and done solos.

Marie and I had just left her house and were walking to the tryouts. It was a really quick walk because she lives only 2 houses away from the studio. This was back in August 2017, a few days after dance camp ended for the summer. We hurried down the stairs to go inside and kept talking about how nervous and excited we were the whole way down. Once we got inside of Bleker’s, we started talking to the other girls. After just a few minutes we were all taken into the dance room and together we all learned a hip hop, jazz, and tap routine. We only had about 30 minutes to learn all of the routines so we were all feeling a little rushed. Before we knew it, the dance teachers put us into groups of 3-5 girls. These groups were the people we would perform our dance routines with. My group was Meghan S, Grace, and I.

Then we started to warm up because we had a judge's preview. So basically we just went into a classroom and performed our dance it was really scary at first, but then it got better because I knew they weren’t judging us that

All though I was scared because I wasn't stretched I was super happy and excited, because I didn't know that my favorite choreographer was teaching the addition. I learn the dance in pain I thought to myself, that the dance my learning was too much of a difficulty for me. Once all of the 15 intimidating groups of talent, go to addition. I was next in

Our team sat in the hallway of our school, waiting for our name to be called to enter the gym. The pregame jitters were everywhere. Girls were bouncing up and down, fanning themselves and skittering around. I had a flood of emotions inside me. I was mostly excited but also quite nervous. What if my parents didn’t like the dance? What if my peers don’t like the dance? What if it looks bad? I couldn’t help but doubt the routine in a time of such nervousness. Our coach gave us each her routine good-luck shoulder shakes, and I knew the time had come. I heard the crowded gym fall quiet.

I took several beginning classes. I took classes with seven and eight-year-olds. For months, I dedicated hours of my day to dance. I’d dance from three to eight and on some occasion six to eight. Day and night I took classes and kept improving. My teacher Ms. Kim noticed and pulled me aside one day, “I don’t think you should be in this class anymore,” she said. “You need to be in a higher level class. Something more challenging.” I was in complete shock. I knew I was getting better; however, I never thought I’d progress that fast. I left dancing with the little kids and started taking classes with people my age and older. People who have been dancing since they were

Mr. Dulane brings something to the students that they had never thought they could do, or that they wanted to know how to do. He initially gets students involved by allowing them to choice to listen to the extremely loud music or to dance, not by forcing them to take part. Of course, all but one student choose to dance instead of listening to the music. He starts rough but the students think that this style of dancing is just not cool. He decides that they only way to show the students just want this type of dancing is, would be to bring in one of his studio students to dance with. This got all the students ready to dance. He was able to demonstrate just how amazing dance could be. He encouraged the students, positively motivated them, and stressed that they should work as a team to dance together. The students began to take pride in their dancing and they created music that they felt was more relevant to their time to dance to as well. This showed pride and ownership in their dancing. Mr. Dulane explained it perfectly that dance, for these students, was teaching them to trust, respect, and care about oneself and others as well. He showed that he cared about the students by showing up, fighting for them, and also in paying for their way to partake in the competition. He truly cared and it shows din his efforts to reach the students on their level, make something relevant to them, and in giving the students

One day at ballet class, Oliver was asked by his dance teacher to emulate a girl for his solo dance. Oliver was hesitant knowing that the other girls would tease him. Hazel was quick to respond to their teacher’s request. “Of course he’ll do it!” she exclaimed. “What will I need to do?” Oliver asked shyly. His teacher explained to him what his choreography was and the techniques.

Most of the dancers came from a voluntary background as in they like to do it for fun, but, for some they use this as a professional aspect for their dance careers. The environment is a mixture of voluntarily and professional backgrounds. Although some may just do it for fun, the coach has a strict regime way of getting stuff done to prepare for performances. In the other hand, the coach can be laid back with a nice sense of humor from what I can tell. I asked the dancer named Karen Delgado where and how she gains her knowledge and ability for dance, she quotes “During the summer, we head to Santa Barbara to compete with different schools all around the world, this is where I take away the different cultures in dance that are divergent and this is how I prepared for the dance team ” (Karen Delgado). According to the dancer she felt like she’s not gaining much from the dance team, she says “ I feel like the coach does not have the knowledge for dance because she is a cheer coach not much of a dance coach, she does have the ability to teach us but sometimes it is difficult” (Karen Delgado). From my perspective, the coach seems to have more knowledge about cheer and is well known for it. Overall, the dancers were well focused, their excitement for it was great, there was a lot of enthusiasm. In the end, Coach Tiffany say “Go home and practice, and get it together”

I at least hoped I was. I walked into the dance room and saw myself in the mirror. This is it. The judges, dance coaches from another school, examined us with kind expressions. I barely let out a sigh of relief before the music started playing.

On my first day of college, my first ever college dance class to be exact, I definitely wasn’t expecting to be thrown into an audition right off the bat. Despite the audition experience I have had, I was extremely nervous because I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I didn’t know what a guest artist coming into a college dance department would be looking for and what they expected from everyone. I looked at it as just taking class even though I was a little worried what was going to happen because as a “little freshman” I didn’t know the process of guest artists was. At first, I saw Jessie Powers to be extremely intimidating, but as the class went on I started to get more comfortable. I felt as if I picked up on the choreography quite

I had danced before as a child but because I was scared I quit. In seventh grade I started dance again. The first time I showed up at the studio I was terrified, I had no clue what to expect. I eventually got comfortable with the whole process and didn’t have to worry until they threw me a curve ball. Turns out my instructor had a class of complete improvisation planned, I had never been more anxious for something. We had to improve for the whole time doing different activities. The first couple times we did this I had no clue what to do and felt extremely awkward. One day I decided that I wasn’t going to hold myself back anymore and was able to do everything they asked from then

I went to technique classes 4 times a week and put in extra hours on the weekend. Although, most girls had much more experience than me, I kept pushing on, no matter how many times I felt like quitting. The week of tryouts was filled with different emotions. I only had two days to learn a 2-minute dance that included moves and tricks I had never even heard have before. My body ached and tears poured from my eyes, but I still fought with everything I had in me. The day of auditions rolled around and I found out which 3 girls would be dancing with me to earn the title of being a Sapphire. Just my luck, I was put with 2 returning members and a girl, whom, had been dancing since she was 3. My hands were shaking as I put on the signature red lipstick and waited in line. I knew that my chances of becoming a part of the team were low and I should be prepared for the worst possible outcome. When my name was