My Experience of Dance

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Date: October 1, 2013
My Experience of Dance
Dance is the poetry of the foot.
——John Dryden
I started to learn dancing, which my mother brought me to learn, when I was at the age of 4. I didn’t know why to dance at the very beginning. I just did wha t teachers had taught me to do. All in the class is child, and we just thought that dance is a kind of game which we can play together, although sometimes we might have a show in the kindergarten. So, dance in a kid’s view is just for fun.
When I was about 8, I began to learn Latin da nce. At first, I couldn’t get the key of the dance. My teacher always said that I was powerless when doing the dance movements. Maybe it was because of my sense of inferiority. And she said, “Latin needs strength and agility.” Latin contains five types, wh ich are cha-cha, rumba, jive, samba and Pasodoble. Rumba was my favorite. As a result, I got the second prize in a Latin dance competition. After that, my views of dance changed from for fun to for honor, which I did my best to get.
In the field of dancing, I still couldn’t free myself. I was not confident to face myself in the mirror. What’s more, I danced because of my kinds of selfish purposes. I hadn’t felt the true meaning of dancing, until I was in the senior high school...
During my senior high school, I joined the school dancing team, where I learned a lot. We had two teachers, a man and a woman. The man teacher’s name was Zhou Zhou, who was graduated from Beijing Dance Academy; while the woman teacher’s name was Zhang Yifeng, who was veteran. In the beginning, Mr. Zhou gave us a training of dance physique. It was basic but important. And then, we learned the first
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Date: October 1, 2013
dance—New Jazz. What I learned from the dance was the dance itself. The dance was so cool, so wonderful! And the second dance was the one that impressed me most. It was named Deep Night, which told us the story Farewell My Concubine. We showed it with long sleeves. It’s beautiful. What’s more, the dance was arranged quite skillfully. We told this story to audience with dance; and this story seemed like a dream from a man; and this dream seemed to relate to a fresco. And this show got the first prize in the Dance Competition.
Maybe I didn’t describe it clearly, but it was really amazing. From then on, I finally knew the true meaning of dancing. You dance, because you want to show your feeling to your audience, with dance movements. Or you are telling a story, and different movements convey different feelings. When the music is on, you can feel that you are the one you act, and you are just in the story. It’s amazing that you will totally revel in the dance. When I was dancing the Deep Night, I felt I am the Consort Yu; and when I was dancing the Special Troops, I thought I am a special troop.
The third one I learned in school dancing team was Modern Dance. In the first class, Mr. Zhou let us lie down with our body totally touched the floor, in order to feel music. We closed our eyes, and felt our body sinking little by little. I felt myself sinking into the earth. The teacher wanted us to dance with this feeling. Moreover, the last dance was related to special troops. It showed the pain and stubbornness of special troops. This performance also got the first prize in the next Dance Competition.
All in all, during senior high school, I learned many kinds of dance, many skills of dance, furthermore, I found the true meaning of dance. That is to dance with your spirit. All above I owe to my two teachers. Thank you so much!
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Date: October 1, 2013
Whenever the music is on, I cannot help dancing, or dancing in my mind. I feel myself change into a note of music. How much I love dancing! I think I will dance forever until death.。