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Three-hundred sixty-five days. One at a time.Archive for dance
Day 58: Three Left Feet
One of the things that I’m really missing is dancing and having so much freedom to dance and just mess around with an amazing assortment of artists. I’ve known for a while that dancing was going to be a very big part of my life. During this year I thought it would be worthwhile to see how I incorporate it into my day and if I would be okay with making it more of a hobby.
Well, it’s a great time for learning I guess. I’m not okay with the downgrade. In the words of Norman Bates “A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.” I feel really lucky to know what I love. The puzzle is how to marry that with peace, justice, love and all that good stuff.
A friend of mine, as I threw myself in a desperate search for my vocation, gave me a book with a line I keep going back to. “You should find the place where your great passion and the world’s great need meet” That’s your vocation. I’m very happy with that picture. I am invigorated by it. When I think of that idea, I don’t feel so selfish for wanting to dance so much. I don’t feel so lost for not recognizing the solutions to our societies problems. It’s not so selfish to embrace a blessing and I shouldn’t worry about the biggest picture when what I have control over is a small square of it.
If the world we live in and our lives are like a large cloth making a beautiful picture, then each of us are like the threads woven to form it. Each one contributes something unique to the scene and is as important as the next when we want to enjoy the picture.
Well, now I’m getting off on my metaphors. So before I go any further I just want to say that I am so glad to have friends who would mess around with some choreo on a Sunday night during finals week because I felt like dancing. I’m glad to know people who have woken up at an absurd hour on a Saturday morning to work on a duet all day so we could perform it that night. I am incredibly thankful for the people who haven’t walked out of a rehearsal after hearing me say “Well, I don’t have choreo tonight. But I do have a vibe. Your boyfriend of two years just dumped you have a midterm in the morning worth 50% of your grade. That’s what we’re doing today… so make sure you stretch!” And also, thank you to every Pemco kid who still drops for pushups when I say so, every South Quad groupie that does handstands cuz I feel like it, and every FLF-er who knows how cool it is to know all the choreography to Hairspray.
Enjoy some videos from messing around when I coulda been studying and good times with Noodle.
