Dance Autobiography

Dance has been apart of my life since I was three. Being a military brat I was never around long enough to establish roots especially in the dance community. Once I turned 10 we moved to Clarksville tennessee for the second time and decided that I would get to stay until I graduated. Meaning I also got to find a dance studio and be on a competition team. Everything starts with an audition. Being in front of people has never made me nervous, but dancing in front of three highly critical judges does make me nerves.

I arrived about two hours too early. I am normally late so if it is important I arrive super early. Come to find out after I walked into the MTSU Dance wing several other girls had arrived in an over timely manner. After I got over the shock of being there I noticed everyone was in black. Yes, I know that a black leotard and pink tights are traditional but in an audition you want to stick out so I wore my green leo.I had to change, people were staring like I had walked in in hip hop attire and this was strictly just a ballet audition. Once I

I chose front and center which just happened to be the instructors bar as well.Once he started to talk to me and encourage me I started to relax. I was then able to dance how I knew I could. Each step was exactly what I had trained for. I had practiced these moves my whole life but no practice prepares you for starting your competition in the face. I was surrounded by some amazing girls. Why choose me when they can have Bendy Bailey behind me? Once the portable bars were moved to the back of the room we were asked to put on our toe shoes for across the floor. Scariest moment of my life: doing pirouette turns across the floor while the set of four ahead of me do three each i can only manage the minimum 2 pirouettes. The audition was going perfect I knew my left from right, I understood the french rambling out of the teacher's mouth, and I even smiled the whole time. I was proud of