Personal Narrative: How Dance Has Impacted My Life

According to my birth certificate, I was born eighteen years ago on May 9th, 1997. While that statement is true, I would like to think that my life truly began only sixteen years ago in August. Generally, the month of August is not very happily anticipated due to the fact that school is quickly approaching and the calm, relaxing days spent outside are coming to an end. However, one particular August in 1999 turned out to be one of the beginnings for some of the best times of my life. Why is that? I give all the credit to one dance class. As a child, many parents will enroll their children in many activities in order to keep them entertained and teach them various life lessons. My mom must have sensed that I would not grow up to have wonderful hand-eye coordination and thus enrolled me in a ballet class. The entire car drive to the dance studio, I whined and cried in an attempt to persuade my mom to turn around and abandon the whole dance class idea. As much as I do not like to admit it, my mother was right. I loved that class more than anything and ever since that day, the only thing I’ve wanted to do was dance. It did not seem to matter where I was or what I was wearing, I …show more content…
For the past few years, I have been fortunate enough to be in a professional dance company called Versatile Dance Company. It is a non-profit organization that holds large performances each year that benefit a different charity. Each summer, we work 15 hours a day in order to put together an entire show and raise money for a local charity that we feel a connection to. I am proud to say, I have raised a total of $68,026.50 for multiple local charities that support battered women shelters, domestic violence projects, leukemia, lymphoma, autism, and breast cancer. Giving to these organizations made dance much more than just a sport and a career, but it became my