When I was about three years old, my parents put me into a beginner`s creative dance class. There were a lot of children my age there, so it was fun.
Then when I was 7 or 8 I started doing ballet. I enjoyed it, but I wasn`t overly flexible. And the teacher was sort of a witch, even with us young`ns. I remember wearing a digital watch to class one day, and it was a hard class, so I ended up looking at my watch to see what time it was.
She noticed me looking at my watch and came over and removed the watch from my wrist. I wasn`t too impressed. So after that dance season ended, I never rejoined. Because that teacher taught all levels of ballet.
Looking back, I wonder how good of a dancer I would have become if I stuck with it. Of course if I stuck with dancing I wouldn`t have been able to join in swimming, which became my sport. I was good at it, and I loved every minute of swimming. Even the hard practices.
The coaches were wonderful too. Even if you couldn`t get it right away, they treated the swimmers with encouragement and respect. Which is what my dance instructor lacked.
But anyway, I now live vicariously through the show So You Think You Can Dance. And now with the Canadian and US versions running at the same time, I can watch 4 nights a week!!!
Although the jury is still out on whether I`ll actually stick to the Canadian one. I`m not a fan of the host. She tries too hard to be funny, and that annoys me. But I am Canadian and do want to see if I'll recognize anybody if they're from the East Coast. So maybe I'll keep watching.
I'm also tempted to pick up some dance classes soon. And even got J interested too! We're considering taking ballroom classes.
We'll definitely need to at least learn the waltz, because at our wedding - whenever that may be (is it bad I'm so confident we'll get married and he hasn't even proposed yet??) - I want to do a nice waltz for the first dance.
Can you dance?
The teacher removed your wristwatch?
ReplyDeleteIn the early 90's I took Salsa dance lessons in Manhattan. Even though I relocated to Pennsilvania in 94, I continued taking lessons once or twice a month until 2002. I love dancing so much that for a few years taught free latin dance in our community.
I've been tempted to take ballroom here in Philly, but there are barely any places where they host ballroom dances.
Good luck with your ballroom dance class!
Re: Kofla
ReplyDeleteYep the teacher came over and basically yanked off my watch. I felt like crying at the time since I was only about 8 years old. But I managed to hold it together. But didn't want to return to class anymore because I thought she was mean.
I'm not sure when we'll get around to doing ballroom classes, since for the next year or so we'll be apart with me at grad school and him staying here. And I really want this to be a joint effort. :)