Shall We Dance?
Growing up, I was enthralled with all things musical theater. Singing, Acting, and Dancing. Watching my friends and then my younger sister being placed into dance classes always plucked at a little twang of jealousy. Swimming was the sport for my family... and for 11 years it was a constant for me. Eventually, though, I made it onto the dancefloor in high school. It started with taking dance as a P.E. credit and then rolled into my experience on the stage. I got good fast. What attracted me to dancing? The freedom? The expression? The vulnerability? Choir did the same to an extent in those categories for me. Then my musical theater friends dragged me to a swing dancing event. I already knew how to two-step and that was always fun... but something about the unspoken conversation during a partner dance at a swing dance was unlike any other. Pushing, pulling, twisting, jumping... all of these commands given and received without words. A different energy fills the air at these events....