So one of the things I love most about the work I do is that I get to sing and dance anytime i want!  As a teenager I had big dreams of being a professional dancer and wanted to BE Jennifer Grey  in "Dirty Dancing."  Seeing that Patrick Swayze had passed away made for a sad evening last night.  I heard a brief interview with him where he was talking about dance and the role of dance in his life~  i don't know if I remember exactly how he put it, but what I took from it was that dancing comes from within you.  Being a dancer isn't something you learn, it's something you are... You can take class after class after class, but there is something inside that needs to exist and the technique gives you a way to expand your expression of that primal need to move.

I love getting to see all the little bodies in class wiggling and jumping!  The pathways we lay down in early childhood help to support all the music and movement "learning" that is to come.  Nothing annoys me more that grown ups telling small children to sit still!  Seeing a child (or adult for that matter) moving their head or feet or body during a concert brings me such joy~  music makes me want to MOVE!