When you hear someone say that they are a "dancer"... what do you take that as? When I hear someone call themselves a "dancer" I think of that as meaning they have been taking dance classes for a while and are involved in some kind of dancing activity.. whether it just be dance class, or a dance team, or a dance Broadway or something. However, recently someone asked if when I say I'm a dancer if I mean a "dirty" dancer... such as a stripper. Apparently in some areas if your a "dancer" that means your a dirty dancer. I've never really heard anyone call strippers dancers, so that was news to me when someone asked. Have you ever heard anyone call strippers dancers? I guess in a way they are dancing... I guess that dancing comes in many different forms.. and I guess stripping is one of them? Hmm.. I've never really thought about that...
What do you think? Do you think strippers should be called dancers? ..i'm not quite sure i think they should..
I don't know if you've ever seen the show, So You Think You Can Dance, but it's pretty amazing. If you haven't its sort of like American Idol.. but only with dancing... This dance is back from season 4 but it is one of my favorite dances. The song is called Mercy by Duffy.. very good dance.. well core-graphed.. and excellent dancers! Enjoy:
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!
