My Dance Research Paper

Topic B The thing that defines me in such an essential way is my love for dance. I began dancing when I was four or five years old. My mother never told why she put me in dance classes but I’ve been thankful ever since. My first memory of dance is the costumes. I remember as a child, completely in love with all the costumes, always playing dress up and throwing on music for little performances by myself. Dance was my first passion when I didn’t even know what that meant. Another memory was one my mother told me. On the day of my first performance, while waiting backstage to go on, my entire class was crying because they were scared. My mother said I wasn’t though. In fact, I was so excited and ready to get on the stage and just have fun in my cute little costume. From what I …show more content…
Studio dance gave me my foundation of dance. It taught the basics of dance and of life. That life takes work to achieve your work. That sometimes, you have to put in an effort outside of classes to truly improve. To learn and pick up choreography quickly and to juggle remembering multiple dances for studio and competition. I hit a plateau in my studio training the same year I tried out for my high school’s drill team and made it. From there, my training, technique, and skills improved and I’ve managed to learn many valuable life skills. Drill team has taught me numerous skills over the three years I’ve been with them. Time management because of extremely precise and strange times, such as 6:58 am practices and 5:11 pm roll calls. Time management also applied when it came to my schoolwork because of the numerous advanced classes I’ve taken. It enforced in me the southern manners I never grew up with, being required to always use “ma’am” and “thank you” with my directors. I’ve learned how to effectively manage difficult people, considering I have to spend around ten hours a week with the same 61 girls and two