Dance is infinite

There is no better feeling than standing in the middle of the stage as the spotlight turns on and the music fades in and you start to perform the dance you spent countless hours trying to perfect. You get to the part you have gone over and over but could never get just right and it goes perfectly. You finish the dance and standing there in your final pose you hear the audience erupt in a roar of applause. Looking into the crowd you see all the people who have been supporting you through the whole process. Those are the moments you worked so hard for. Those are the moments that will stay with you forever.

I know that feeling very well. I have been dancing ever since I was 3. I have been involved in many different types of dance such as tap, jazz, salsa, lyrical, contemporary, swing, ballet, and point. In fact, this picture is a picture of me my senior year of high school, doing a ballet dance. I played the fairy Temperance in Sleeping Beauty. I took lessons in my home town at a little studio above a Chines restaurant from kindergarten up until I graduated high school. After high school I started to attend Northwest Missouri State, which is where I am still currently enrolled, and I am dancing in the Northwest Dance Company.

There are so many uses to dance. It can be used to inspire, entertain, tell a story, give someone a voice, relieve stress, and so much more. There are also so many components to dance: the type of dance, the moves, the order of the moves, the amount of dancers, costumes, music, setting, reasons for the dance. There are so many components and different parts to dance that there is no way I would be able to list all of them and even if I could, its nothing compared to seeing the real thing live.

Dance has become a bigger part of pop culture with many different dace movies and TV shows.  It used to only be thought of as girls in tutus prancing around on a stage but there is more to it and I hope people can see that. If not, I would like to show that there is so much to it. Dance is infinite.