I joined jazz dance classes about seven weeks back and mine is the weekends batch, which means Sunday-3hr class. The first month was basically all about learning, forgetting, feeling stupid, wanting to do it all perfect in one go but never the less exciting. It was all so new and fresh. More than the dance itself the feeling of ‘learning something new’, giving yourself time and ‘wow! jazz dance’ consumed me and made me all smiles. Even in the class when we would do the dance and my instructor would ask to bring some attitude to the moves, I would be smiling to myself just looking at myself in the mirror an i was all teeth (just realised it might be looking silly to others, who cares!). Btw the studio has an entire wall of glass which is wow! now you see what i mean, everybody knows and understands that dance studios have glasses on walls, but seeing yourself there, a part of it all is WOW! I won’t lie, but i did feel out of place, not because i don’t know dance, i love dance, but my thoughts did run into ‘its only for skinny people’,NOW I’m not a fat, but I’m not skinny either. I’m just fine with a few extra inches here and there. But then I did realize that even this is a way of staying fit, learning about your body, pushing your limits and mostly its about ‘attitude’. So i let those negative thoughts leave me asap and put my heart into the dance.
Now its the second month( only one more class to go) and I feel much more into the dance, more than the steps I’m focusing on the techniques, i remember the moves much easily and I’m somewhat portraying a attitude of a dancer, I’m feeling like a dancer. And being me, ‘the dedicated’, ‘never give up’, ‘committed to what i put my head and heart into’, person I’ve always being practicing. Its getting better and I’m feeling it. I even got a compliment from one of my batch mates( not a guy, so must be genuine ;)) and also from my trainer. I think its great fun and although I haven’t made friends as i thought i would, i have found my place in the jazz world.
Hope to keep leaning more of this great dance form. ![]()
