Breakdancing Personal Statement

Swerving around a mass sea of students while quickly glancing at my schedule and the classrooms around me, I was a new student trying to find my classes at the large campus of Neuqua Valley High School. Even though it was my junior year, I was a new student after transferring schools and was unfamiliar with the campus and with many of the students there, until I found out about a hip-hop/breakdancing club called Urban Arts Club (UAC). Since I was ten years old, I have always been interested in learning how to breakdance, but I was not able to learn when I lived in Vietnam. After discovering UAC, I anxiously joined the club to learn how to breakdance and to try and become acquainted with the students of the club. As a new member of UAC, I learned the fundamentals of breakdancing, began practicing with the other members, and helped out the current and new members in order …show more content…
I have a large network of people that make me feel as though I belong to a large family who I can dance with and spend time with outside of dance too. Before, breakdancing was just one of my hobbies, but now it has turned into a large portion of my life. Breakdancing has helped me develop my creativity skills, since I have the ability to create my own dance sequences and innovate different moves. Furthermore, breakdancing has tested my patience taught me to be disciplined through the countless hours spent practicing and pushing myself to improve along with my friends and dance crew mates. I strive to create new ideas with breakdancing through innovating new concepts and moves and patiently perfecting them until I can execute the moves as if they were second nature and to the best of my ability. Breakdancing has positively shaped my character, allowed me to become part of a large breakdancing community, and developed skills such as creativity which will allow me to become successful in my future