Monday, October 27, 2014

Acquisition of Skill: Dancing?

As you might've noticed... I have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to dancing. What-so-ever. That is why, between now and November 24, my amazing partner Allison Hunt and I will be learning how to swing dance. By the 24th of November, we will have mastered a swing routine. I think this is going to be awesome! I always have secretly wanted to learn to dance, and there's no cooler way to do it than a classy swing dance to one of my all-time favorite songs: Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM. Learning a new skill such as this will better myself and aid any sort of learning I do in the future; as I go about learning something so foriegn I will also aquire passive skills in regrards to picking up new things. In the future it would be pretty cool to have this unique skill under my belt and to show it off at weddings, parties, etc,. All I know is that very seldom do you come across or witness people that dance in this manner and this elegantly, and because it's so rare (or at least rare to me) it just makes it that much more incredible! Plus, swing music is fantastic and because it's so mildly unpopular in this day and age learning to dance to such "sick-nasty charts" makes this skill pretty unique.
This skill relates to me in the sense that the music and the age of this dance really applies to one of my many not-so-secret interests. I feel as if I'm being almost redundant, but jazz/swing music is extraordinary, and I'm excited to learn something so interrelated!
A thankyou to my best friend Allie Hunt for agreeing to do this with me and a thankyou to Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, our incredible dancing instructors/coaches!

2 comments:

  1. What has acquisition of this skill taught you about yourself and your comfort zone? Have you found yourself needing to step outside of that?

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  2. Wow, Kelsey, what an interesting skill! Are you planning an acting career? Do you tape your practices and then listen to them? I'd love to hear your accents.

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