Mar 17 2009
I miss you
I dance twice a week: Monday night is Funk and Tuesday night is Ballet and Jazz. For years I was on the competitive Hip Hop team at my school and I went in to the studio every Saturday. On top of that my best friends and I used to choreograph our own Hip Hop dances for our school talent show. When we all graduated from high school Hip Hop dancing was extinguished from our life, we no longer took Saturday classes and there was no more talent show to choreograph for.
Today is the first day that I realized everything I gave up. You get older and you prepare yourself for monumental changes. I was so ready to move on and sacrifice my Hip Hop dancing that I never regretted or second guessed my choice. I basically forgot what it was like; that feeling only Hip Hop can give you. I miss the freedom and personality that goes along with the dance. The room for self expression is unparalleled by any other dance style I’ve done. You can let your body loose, you can connect with the music, you can connect with the audience, but that’s not what made me realize how much I miss Hip Hop dancing. It’s the feeling you get when you and the music and your movement are all in unison. You hit it. You get it. You kill it. You love it. I miss it.
Today is the first day that I realized everything I gave up because today I danced Hip Hop in my dance school for the first time since I quit. When you get older you prepare yourself for monumental changes, but you can’t prepare yourself for the confrontation of old feelings. Today I remembered what it was like; the feeling only Hip Hop can give you.
The message that you wrote was well done. I could tell that it was from the heart. I did not know how much you enjoyed dancing hip hop. Maye one day it will resume. But until then Keep doing what you love and that is to Dance.