Tuesday, August 4

Dancing at Carnegie Mellon

Dancing at Carnegie Mellon is absolutely incredible. We dance every day of the week. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I have ballet with Judy Conte (see the picture). She is absolutely the most incredible ballet teacher I've had in my life. She has made my actual LOVE for dance come up again. I used to dance for dance and to train and stuff... like "Oh, well I do musical theater so it's not really a question if I dance or not." But now, I am so ANXIOUS to start dance up again after Judy's class. It wasn't necessarily challenging in the sense of doing crazy advanced leaps and adagios, but she just broke down every little simplistic piece of barre technique. She solidified every nice piece of technique so I can now move forward and learn advanced techniques CORRECTLY because I have the clean and simple base that I sometimes feel like I didn't appreciate enough to understand earlier in my dance training.


I had Jazz class on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Renee Keil. She was incredible! Our class had so many good times with her and I got to learn a lot of material in a short amount of time. Her workouts were fun and the combinations we learned we awes
ome because it got us to connect with our bodies and act through the dancing while using proper technique as well. I loved the class because, like ballet, it helped me build a nice base to come home and get more advanced with a better base.

I'm home now and I miss my dance classes so much, as well as dancing in general. Stephanie and I went to the Morrie dance studio once and danced Adrienne's beautiful music. Freestyle dancing is always my favorite because it lets me be who I am and gives me the chance to be anything I want.

Carnegie Mellon has affirmed that dancing is one of my passions, and I look forward to school and dance classes outside of school. I've been missing and craving dance for a while now!