Dance

Dance seems to be consuming my life as of late, so I figure I should write/rant about it. Dance is something I love... pretty much in any form. Anytime I see dancing, I want to do dance too, and most of the time when I don't see people dancing, I still want to dance... I seriously have an "Amarea's Life Soundtrack" in my head that plays about 90% of my awake time, and I want to dance to a lot of it. hahaha Anyways, I went to Indisa Night last night, which made me REALLY want to dance, but I couldn't, so that was a bit disappointing. However, I rehearsed the choreography for my belly dance song in my head for a bit, and that helped. Speaking of belly dance, my showcase is next Sunday (March 11) at 7pm at the Cohn. Tickets are available for $6 from the Dal Arts Centre box office. You should come. Seriously. It's going to be AMAZING. And my dance is really cute. And yous hould come. Okay, enough of the plug for that one...

One part of dance that I can't stand is "dancer's attitude". If you've done dance, you'll know what it is. It's when a dancer is so infatuated with a) the dance, b) her/himself, and c) getting it perfect that it turns him/her into a complete snob, usually accompanied by overt rudeness. Many, many people in my belly dance class have a severe case of dancer's attitude, and it was sooo annoying. I'm talking mouthing off to the teacher because our costumes are different colours than their coin belts so they can't wear them and omigosh I just HAVE to wear my royal blue coin belt because if I don't I'm pretty sure I'm going to die or just not dance. *sigh* It was pathetic... and annoying... Most of the kids in my hip hop class also have dancer's attitude. I'm thinking of two girls in particular that say, "I'll go through the song once with the rest of the class. Oh, don't worry. I know it. That's why I don't need to practice. They need to practice." *sigh* What does one do with this?! And then there's the older class where they turn every move I teach into some form of pole dancing/striptease. They are like eleven!!! Come on, people!!!

Okay... enough ranting... Despite my annoyance with dancer's attitude, I really do love to dance, and I've had the attitude more than once myself, so I really shouldn't complain. Granted, I do keep my attitude in my head so no one knows, which really, is the best way to have it, if you've got to have it at all. Okay... ranting again... back on track... I love dance. I find it incredibly moving to watch. It speaks to me. And I am excited for the day when I can spend eternity dancing before my King.