Being A College Dancer
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Being A College Dancer

We will really feel it because we left our hearts on the stage.

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When you have been performing for your entire life and you hit college, it may become harder to get into pieces or shows or it may be easier. I'm going to tell you what it's like when you are in about 20 pieces.

You're taking your classes that you have to take for your major. You could only have 12 credits or you could have 19 credits. Let's say you're taking 19 credits. Auditions are coming up for dance companies. You audition for all of them and make it into one. You think to yourself, "This isn't going to be that bad." That is until you audition for all of your friend's senior projects and another project that a friend of yours is doing. You make it into all of them and there are multiple pieces in each project. You get all of your rehearsal times and realize that you have no time for anything else.

Don't get me wrong, it's so much fun being able to dance and perform with some of your best friends. It's amazing to be able to tell somebody else's story through their movement but you are performing it. I love being a dancer and performer. Sometimes it just gets a little overwhelming.

You get to the point where you literally write out the times of the day that you should be doing this or going to this class. Dancing in college is the time that you can really express yourself. You are able to be the best that you can be so you can get an amazing job when you graduate.

Dancing has saved so many people from multiple things. It can save you from having a bad day, a good day and make it even better, a disorder, and pretty much anything else that you can think of. Dancing is a way that people communicate what they are feeling without talking. College dancing is a way that we communicate with each other. We dance a certain way and we automatically realize that we are hurting inside or are extremely happy.

Being a college dancer, you become a family. Yes, you were a family with the people you danced with when you were in high school. However, when you become a dancer in college, you spend countless hours with your fellow dancers. You see each other ever single day. You pretty much live and eat together. You become family and nothing can ever break that family apart. The hours are worth it, the frustration we feel at the end of some rehearsals are worth it, and once we hit that stage for the final performance, we will really feel it because we left our hearts on the stage.

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