Dance
I just wrote a whole blog in my head so let's see if I can convey it to you guys now.
I've been thinking about exercise alot (thinking being the action word here). I just caught beyonce's performance on a music awards show. I stood in front of my TV my face 2 ft from the screen unable to move b/c I am so captivated by dancing. I always have been. I wasn't the little girl who dreamed of being a ballerina (at some point in my childhood someone told me how they have rigorous diets and are talked down to like they are crap unless they weigh 80 lbs) so I vetoed that idea long ago.
But I remember being 11 and watching mtv videos (back when that's almost all they played, ahhhh, the days) and I'd be so captivated. I'd sit down (with all my spare time) and record them onto VHS so I could teach it to myself later. I did good. I'd memorize it and have hours and hrs of fun doing it and I WAS GOOD. I FEEL music in my veins, I always have. I believe it's called "musicality" in the dance world, I think. So back when I was 11 and my baby fat was just multiplying, my mom bought me this video. It was produced by MTV and it was some dancer doing like 5 diff routines from famous videos of the time. ie, N'sync and britney spears. My mom knew I'd love it and I did. I'd do it all the time, don't remember if I lost weight though.
I started watching "So you think you can dance" in 2007. Why do I remember it so well? B/c I was still w/ my ex, I saw a preview anouncing the new season and I just HAD to watch it. My ex actually liked it as well, being more okay with the hip hop or theatrical funny stuff. In '07 I'd sit watching it, getting fatter, probably eating chips or ice cream, and daydreaming of when I could someday do those moves. Still, every year when I watched it (during the summer runs) I vowed I will be able to do it at some point. I don't know if I'd shoot for professional, or even try out for a show like that, but I want to do it and be good. I want DANCE to be my exercise. I LOVE dance! In fact, i even love all dance. After watching the show for a few years I feel most connected to and moved by contemporary dance. However, I am super good at hip hop. And no I don't mean club dancing and booty smackin', the real stuff.
Maybe when I have some cashola to blow I'll scower the web for dance/aerobic videos. I think I would really enjoy this. And I'd be good at imaging it's my own little dance video every time I do it, b/c I've done it MANY, MANY times before. haha!
This would be why my blog says over on the right in the description that I'm anxious to shed this crap and be the true dancer/athlete I feel I am inside. Maybe if I'm lucky enough to have tight, toned skin through all this I could auditioning for the show next year. haha! I don't know, the whole LA thing....I don't know. But dance for me is so many things; relaxing, emotional, explorative, creative, freeing, gradifying, etc. Oh how I love that show!
xoxo,
Liz
I've been thinking about exercise alot (thinking being the action word here). I just caught beyonce's performance on a music awards show. I stood in front of my TV my face 2 ft from the screen unable to move b/c I am so captivated by dancing. I always have been. I wasn't the little girl who dreamed of being a ballerina (at some point in my childhood someone told me how they have rigorous diets and are talked down to like they are crap unless they weigh 80 lbs) so I vetoed that idea long ago.
But I remember being 11 and watching mtv videos (back when that's almost all they played, ahhhh, the days) and I'd be so captivated. I'd sit down (with all my spare time) and record them onto VHS so I could teach it to myself later. I did good. I'd memorize it and have hours and hrs of fun doing it and I WAS GOOD. I FEEL music in my veins, I always have. I believe it's called "musicality" in the dance world, I think. So back when I was 11 and my baby fat was just multiplying, my mom bought me this video. It was produced by MTV and it was some dancer doing like 5 diff routines from famous videos of the time. ie, N'sync and britney spears. My mom knew I'd love it and I did. I'd do it all the time, don't remember if I lost weight though.
I started watching "So you think you can dance" in 2007. Why do I remember it so well? B/c I was still w/ my ex, I saw a preview anouncing the new season and I just HAD to watch it. My ex actually liked it as well, being more okay with the hip hop or theatrical funny stuff. In '07 I'd sit watching it, getting fatter, probably eating chips or ice cream, and daydreaming of when I could someday do those moves. Still, every year when I watched it (during the summer runs) I vowed I will be able to do it at some point. I don't know if I'd shoot for professional, or even try out for a show like that, but I want to do it and be good. I want DANCE to be my exercise. I LOVE dance! In fact, i even love all dance. After watching the show for a few years I feel most connected to and moved by contemporary dance. However, I am super good at hip hop. And no I don't mean club dancing and booty smackin', the real stuff.
Maybe when I have some cashola to blow I'll scower the web for dance/aerobic videos. I think I would really enjoy this. And I'd be good at imaging it's my own little dance video every time I do it, b/c I've done it MANY, MANY times before. haha!
This would be why my blog says over on the right in the description that I'm anxious to shed this crap and be the true dancer/athlete I feel I am inside. Maybe if I'm lucky enough to have tight, toned skin through all this I could auditioning for the show next year. haha! I don't know, the whole LA thing....I don't know. But dance for me is so many things; relaxing, emotional, explorative, creative, freeing, gradifying, etc. Oh how I love that show!
xoxo,
Liz
Love this post :-)
ReplyDeleteI have 2 left feet, so I'll never be a dancer. But I want to be a kayaker, a hiker, a runner, a more frequent biker. I'd like to be the kind of person who finds solace and peace in being active outdoors as part of her daily routine and ritual- not just here and there, every now and then.
That was a huge part of my why I had this surgery.