DANCE, DANSE, DANZA, DANCE

To Dance - To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures, an artistic form of nonverbal communication.

For those of you who are unaware of my past, dancing took up most of it. I dedicated the majority of my time outside of school, and much time suppossed to be spent in school to dance, or something related. It became more than a passtime or hobby, it became a lifestyle. Blessed by the opportunity to study many forms of dance, ballet, jazz, tap, highland, modern, swing, folk, the list goes, has left me unable to decide my favorite! Fusion of multiple forms is probably where I find my passion lying.

Dance has been a creative outlet, a way to blow off steam, a way to connect, a way to disconnect. There are few feelings that come close to the feeling one gets after nailing a show infront of hundreds of people, or finially getting an excerise correct in class, watching students master something you've taught them. Dance never fails you...regardless of if its in your living room dancing for only you, or on stage for a packed house, the feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment is next to nothing!

Dance, however has not played a role in my life for almost two years now. A knee dislocation stopped my plans in dance right in their tracks. My body was unable to do what was required of it and I made the decision to stop dancing and study religion and psychology at SMU instead. My life the last couple years has looked completely different to those of the previous. But alas, I don't post just for nostalgic reasons...I post because once again I am back in the studio.

I forgot how much I loved to dance, and realised how much I missed it! I am currently working with a show that my church here in Panama is putting on for Christmas. I am told that thousands of people will watch the show live, not to mention the numbers that will see it on TV! I am so excited for it...though it is a very humbling experience...my body isn't what is was, so I'm now in the process of re-teaching myself everything I once new so I don't humiliate myself! But I love the challenge it provides and the opportunity to get to know an entire new group or Panamanians!!


"a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance" - Ecclesiastes 3:4