How I got interested in this subject...

I first became interested in dancing when I was little. When I was 3 years old I was in gymnastics and I absolutely loved it, but when I was about 8 years old my mom decided to take me out of gymnastics and put me into dance, she had her reasons but I was pretty angry at the time. I started taking dance classes such as; ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, and leaps and turns. My mom also put me in an acro class which like gymnastics but only floor. At first I wasn't too sure that I would be interested in my dance classes but looking back i'm really glad my mom made me do it. Although it was a lot of practice and took up a lot of my free time it was definitely worth it. When I got to high school my mom encouraged me to try out for the dance team so I did and made it. I was on the JV team freshmen year and then the Varsity Team, also known as Dance and Drill, sophomore year, junior year, and senior year. Senior year I became a co captain for the team. Being on a team was a lot of fun, but took up a lot of my time so i quit taking classes at my studio unfortunately when I was about 16 years old. After high school I stopped dancing because I went to a Community College for my first semester of freshmen year and they didn't have a dance team or anything. I didn't think about trying out for anything until this semester (2011, my sophomore year in college) I actually just tried out for the dance company here at Northwest Missouri State University and made it, so i was pretty happy! I'm really glad i'm back in dancing because I missed it a lot!