My Personal Experience : My Experience In The Dance Class

I used to love dance class. I was never any good at it- just watch me walk and you’ll notice how clumsy I am- but it was still one of my passions. I had been taking a dance class since kindergarten, and when I moved to Fort Thomas in first grade, it was one of the constants in my life. Every Tuesday, I would pack up my pink dance bag, put on my leotard and tights, and jump into my mom’s car to be taken to practice. Excitement would bubble through me every single time- for a while, at least.

My whole life has been of dirty mirrors, old ballet shoes, and ripped tights. I was 5 years old and a beginner at a dance academy. I didn’t quite know what dance was when I got in, I thought it was just a place to spend time in and just enjoy the music they played. Over the years I learned that dance is way more than just a hobby or a place to go when you are bored. It is art, you are the one making art. Your feelings are the story to your dance, and your moves are the music. People will see your pain or happiness through these ways. Dance is not just a hobby, it’s an art, it’s something that you don’t actually have to throw music at when the steps and feelings you add are the music to your dance.

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

This semester in dance class I have had a wonderful time and learned a lot of things. We’ve had some great times in dance this semester, like when we were doing our show, “How the Grinch Stole the Nutcracker”, I had a lot of fun. I did many things well but, there was a lot I could work on,too. I remember that in our ‘Ice Skaters’ dance, we would do a Jazz split and I was really good at that! Also,we would do a “tabletop stand-up” thing and I was also really good at that, that part was really fun. In our “Samba” dance we had to make up some poses to do at the beginning, and make sure we remembered to use levels, I was pretty good at doing that! Even though there were many good things I did, there were also many things I wish to work on. I really

I was born in a seaside city where people enjoy the first ray of sunlight of a day. Running and playing on the beach is my favorite routine of my childhood life, and all my friends said that I was good at “dancing.” Frankly, I did not know what dancing was at that moment, but every time I moved my body that made me satisfied to see how it could move and make all those beautiful curves. Noticed that, my parents sent me to an after-school dance class to study when I was five, and I kept studying for seven years during which I got to be more attracted to this form of movements. In 2005, when I was twelve, I started my professional dance study in a local technical secondary school. Then，I realize that “dancing” could be my future and my life.

Dance has always been a part of my life, and it was always fun to look back at old pictures and reminisce about all of the dance issues I had when I was younger. But as I got older and better, the growing stopped. I wasn’t learning as much new stuff, just perfecting old choreography. Ballet has never been my favorite dance style, my studio is more invested in lyrical and performance styles, like tap, jazz, and musical theatre. I originally only wanted to take ballet here because I wanted to be in the Nutcracker because it was something my studio doesn’t do. But this class brought me back to ballet basics, and I have seen major growth in my ballet technique, enough for my mom to notice. I’ve gotten a lot stronger at certain ballet barre warm

One begins to change as a person and have more confidence, believe in yourself more and know it's okay to get out of your comfort zone. "People always say they can not dance and be horrible and never learn and I can see them in four weeks can prove them wrong," she said with

These past two years have been crammed with so much new knowledge and understanding of dance that I could never be taught at a studio, for example, I have been told many times about my neck being pushed forward if I can recall I was called “turtleneck” but that's beside the point just knowing that I started to notice other things that aren’t correct with myself and I have been able to start fixing it which improved the quality of my dancing tremendously.

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

Dancing has never been a huge learning experience for me and I never saw the potential influences it would have on my life. Believing that teamwork or leadership meant nothing when it came to dance, Only it could have just been my ignorance as well never actually spending time to develop myself in this art. Until I reached high school where I joined dance class and started to become more

It’s really cool to just try the moves we learn in class with different people. I would get really nervous when I dance with someone that’s better than me because I would be scared to mess up, but eventually I got the hang of it. I regret not dancing with the more skilled girls because I would probably have learned a lot from them. It did feel a little discouraging towards the end because no one else was dancing except the more advanced people. So all I could do was observe them and admire how graceful all of them looked.

It was in 8th grade that I discovered this team and since then, my best friend Jessica and I had went through countless days of practice in the best way possible. Leia, my senior friend that was one of the best dancers on the team, was able to teach us, ADDED TO the lessons we were taught from other amazing hip hop coaches. My other two friends, Momoko and Reyna, even joined our lessons after a while from when Jessica and I started. I couldn’t contain my excitement of having the best high

If not working to solve a problem, then anxiety and boredom ensue. The challenge is alive and growing in the world of dance to have the best technique and the most dedication. Every time I walk into the studio I know that I need to improve at least one aspect of my dancing. In the college environment, I will have the resources to study and dance until I drop. I want to build a long, fruitful career in dance based on strong technique and artistry. I hope to someday perform on the stage of the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center and other awe-inspiring stages throughout the world. I will spend my college years preparing to achieve the goals I have spoken about. When I graduate, I will work towards them, taking with me everything I learned during my time

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.