When I was at the dance conference this weekend, a strange thing happened.\u00a0 As I was watching classes, I had a sudden, intense feeling that I wanted to dance.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t just that I wanted to move, I wanted to create, teach and share.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always loved dance and I\u2019ve loved teaching since I started when I was 15 and I\u2019ve loved choreographing my entire life.\u00a0 Though my first real choreographed piece wasn\u2019t until I was 17, my sister and I used to constantly make up dances when we were younger.\u00a0\u00a0 We used to make up dances in the rain, for all our family holidays, in the backyard on summer days and we would even spend our entire spring break (every year!) in our grandparents\u2019 pool making up a dance that we would then perform at the end of our vacation.<\/p>\n
Dance has always been a big part of my life and as I\u2019ve floated in and out of it as an adult, sometimes the passion I have for it gets buried under everything else in my life.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t been on a regular routine for taking class since I broke my foot nearly 7 years ago (before I got married, moved to Florida, had Honeybun, moved to Ireland, had Sugarplum , moved back to Florida and had Doodle).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m so happy to be back teaching and love my students and my classes.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also been missing being able to take class since Doodle was born.\u00a0 Unfortunately the place I like to go is too far for me to go, take class and be back between feeds and right now I can\u2019t justify giving him a bottle so I can go (Sugarplum was 8 months when I started with her so maybe in the new year).\u00a0 But what I didn\u2019t realize until this weekend was how much I miss the creative part of dance.<\/p>\n
Teaching only provides so much creative outlet.\u00a0 Because 4 out of 5 of my classes are beginner\/intermediate level classes I have to keep them pretty basic.\u00a0 My advanced classes I can give more complicated and \u201cdancey\u201d things but this is only once a week and only 45 minutes of their class time.\u00a0 I\u2019m also choreographing a piece for the studio\u2019s Holiday performance but, again, it\u2019s beginner\/intermediate dancers and since some had just started ballet a few weeks before rehearsals began, I didn\u2019t have a lot to work with.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m dying to just get in the studio and create something.\u00a0 To make a dance, to USE my passion.<\/p>\n
This is the last choreography project I did which was while we were still in Ireland, nearly 2 years ago: \u00a0\u00a0The Water Project<\/a><\/p>\n
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