Dance. How can you survive a University with what people think is an easy major. If you ask someone who has zero dance experience, I bet seventy-five percent of the time people are going to say that it is an easy subject. When someone says that it is easy, I laugh at them and tell them that they have no idea on what they are talking about. There is technique that you have to learn, movements that your body does not want to do because it is not used to it. Then the sense of rhythm that need to be on point for the actions. It is harder than it sounds. When you first start dancing you break down the mussels and then build them back up to gain more muscle. I also laugh when athletes say that Dance is not a sport. I tell them to go to a dance class for a day and see if they…
We have to get our muscles going and warmed up. Then we start to work on technique and get stronger at it. It is the one weakness that can dig us in a whole if it is not correct. Bad technique can lead to injuries and bad grades.” You need to follow the guidelines that the teacher wants. You have to take criticism well. It is unprofessional it you start crying in front of a judge or, teacher. When you want dance to be your profession you have to take it as serious as an actor rehearsing for the biggest role of the year that could award them the Acadamy Award of Best Actor.
I was almost clueless as to what the homework was. According to Mrs. Bond, it was mostly work in class and you would have to practice outside of class with a few little assignments in between. With my mom she was assigned to write up her own dances and perform them to classmates. It could be from any genre that the teacher picked. They got to pick the music and the moves that they wanted. At times there were times where she was told to improve to a random song of the professors choice. If that happened to me then I would get used to being ready on the…
