Personal Narrative: My Identity

Dancers go through a lot of pain. On average dancers get hurt about once every two weeks. That means that dancers, on average, get hurt about 26 times a year. Whether it is a tiny fall or breaking a bone, dancing is a foolproof way to hurt at least something in your body. Especially if you are on pointe. In a pointe shoe, you

Along with other sports, dance involves physical exertion and requires skill. It can be inferred that when athletes undergo physical activity, they push themselves to their limit, which results in them becoming sore, and possibly even injured in some cases. This also pertains to dancers. Dancers can pull a muscle by overstretching or by not stretching enough. They can also break any bone by doing turns, flips, jumps, and tricks. In Ronald Smith’s article, he proceeds to explain

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.

Dance demands the same physical skills that are required in other sports. Flexibility, strength, and endurance are key characteristics that most dancers need to posses. As with other “athletes,” most dancers are not born with these abilities but must establish them through practice and repetitive training. Similar to traditional sports practices, dance rehearsals are extensive and require diligence, dedication, and patience from the dancers as they will have to repeat exercises and stretches to perfect their technique and stay on

I was a dancer for fourteen years, beginning at the age of four and ending at the age of 18. I participated in basically every type of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, modern, lyrical, and contemporary. Each year, I would participate in more classes than the last, and it eventually got to the point where I would be attending dance classes five or six days of my week. It definitely got tiring, but I still loved it. Dance is a great way to be able to portray emotions through movement, and I think that is very unique and special to participate in. It was a very huge part of my life, and so were the people teaching me. Dance and everything that came with it was a huge influence on my life, and it helped shaped me into the person I am today.

I started taking dance lessons at the age of three and once I started you couldn’t get me to stop. I was at the studio more than I was at home, if I wasn’t dancing I was watching the older girls, wishing I could be as good as them. Although I almost quit when I was eight, after my mom left. She said she just couldn’t do it any more and the next morning she was gone. After

Although every ballet dancer dreams of and works extremely hard to become a principal dancer, almost every dancers does not make it to principal because the principal must be the best out of all of the rest of the dancers. This creates jealousy and envy that cannot be seen on the stage. Injuries can even effect a dancer’s mental state. Performing with an injury or the thought of getting an injury can put a dancer under extreme stress and

Dance is not only physically asset but also a mental challenge. There is the pressure of performance, there is the pressure to remember and get all your steps right in order to improve, and also as a dancer you are constantly working on technique so that everything is perfect. As you can see, dance

Just about everyone has been known to break a move from time to time. But, some are better at dancing than others and many believe that

For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with dance, especially ballet. As a child I would stand in front of the TV, watching ballerinas in tutus twirl across the stage, attempting to copy their leaps and pirouettes. I dreamed about the possibility of that dancer being me one day. I had no idea how much that dream would eventually shape my life. In sixth grade, I began ballet.

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.

Taking this non-dancing lifestyle in a pretty harsh way, I decided that my back and my pain was not going to stop me. I joined my school’s theatre program. Along with musicals, comes dancing. Oh but this dancing is much different. Now, with the realization that I could actually participate in dancing and

As I engaged in fitness and physical activities this past year, my experiences have included dancing as one activity that I do. I joined the Kealakehe Dance Team as a sport and I've done it for the whole year. I started in August and u have continued until now. I go to dance practice everyday after school until 6 pm. At practice, we do a series of warm ups before we actually start dancing. The first thing we would usually do is stretch which can sometimes be painful because I would be sore from practice the day before and my coach would make us hold the stretch for a while and push us further. She would sometimes use textbooks as weights and put it on our feet when we do wall splits to push us down more after we stretch, we would sometimes

Little do we know as dancers that every form of dance is hard. It's just like every job nobody starts out a professional.

Dance has developed from tip-toe style to hip hop and funk dances. However, the smooth movement of elbows, feet and shoulders can’t be forced, only learned. Dances vary by region but one is common – if you want to be a professional dancer, start as early as possible. As you train,