How Dance Saved Me
“To dance is to walk in song, to live and breathe as the art. I have been dancing since the age of three, but you do not have to be trained in dance to enjoy it. Dance is for everyone, throughout history, dance has been known and used in: social events, cultures, performances, and a way to bring people of all shapes, sizes, and differences together.”
You may be questioning, how can dance save a person?
It is more than a stamina built beauty, showcasing athleticism and grace. It saved me in a way that can only be felt in your soul. From the endless days and hours of training in the studio and having a safe environment to exist, be vulnerable, and allow my emotions and heart to release through the movement in my limbs; to the moments of standing on the dark stage surrounded by the stage lights and the adoring shadowed audience.
Knowing that although they would never come to know the physical nor mental dedication and commitment it took, never feeling the pain and emotions that hid under the beautiful painting they fawned over; they still appreciated the raw organic grace. This haunting human who has enchanted their minds, and brings their heart and souls together as one.
I allow myself to escape into the art, there it is a different world. Where my body speaks to the rhythm of the music, I do not fear vulnerability, and I can be anything.
Dance saved me, it saved my soul, it saved the purity left in my heart from a corrupted world. I can live as a human, a real, beautiful, delusional human.
What can you do?
I always encourage everyone, no matter if you’ve danced before, or have two left feet, to just take a dance class and try it out. It is a great form of exercise for your physical health. Enhancing cardio, stamina; strengthening your core, limbs, posture, and flexibility.
It also comes without judgment because dance is an art, and art isn’t supposed to look perfect, it’s supposed to make you feel something.
