Post from Taylor Craver: Dancing in my Head

Friends and family are constantly telling me that I am always moving, and I can never sit still. I know this. Whenever a song comes on it is my natural reaction, as it is any other dancers, to move ever so slightly to feel the rhythm of the music. If I can’t fall asleep I lie in bed just envisioning different movement to songs that I like or that are even just stuck in my head. Sometimes the dancing in my head comes out through my body no matter where I am. The other day I was studying in the library and Cobra Starship started playing on iTunes and without thinking I started dancing, when I quickly realized I was in a library and that probably isn’t the most appropriate place for me to be dancing.

That made me wonder is there a right place to dance? Obviously we are supposed to dance in class and always put full effort into classwork because that same work is displayed when we are on-stage. However, I feel that some of my best dancing occurs when I am behind closed doors, either by myself or even when I am just having fun with friends. I would like to try and change this. I don’t want my best dancing to be in my head or behind closed doors, I want my best dancing to be in class. I feel that because I am focusing on so many different things I forget to move. I forget to use my head and my upper body to truly dance my movements at barre, center and across the floor.