Last night, a few awesome circumstances lead me to this song. Now, I consider myself a decently big Bon Iver fan. I've seen him in concert and had this song as my ringtone for over a year. However, for some reason (warning: it's about to get real sappy up in
here) this cover really spoke to me. It's absolutely beautiful.
Wanna know what I did? I moved our kitchen table and choreographed a little dance to part of it and then I played it over and over again and danced until I could barely breathe. It was honestly the best thing I've done for me in...years? I started dancing at age 3 and although I've never been SYTYCD good, I've held my own on dance companies and choreographed a dance that got an award (is it pathetic that I can't remember what award?) at UVSC when I was in high school.
Some people love running, others love sewing. I love dancing. I debated if I should try to find some dance class or something I could do, but I don't have a clue where I would fit. I can still stick a triple pirouette (well, sometimes), yet I can hardly touch my toes anymore. And I don't like the flashy, jazz hands dancing. I'm more of a therapeutic Mia Michaels kind of gal.
And then I found this video. She has her dancers recall a time when they would shut themselves in their room, turn on music and just go. I did that aaaaaallll the time growing up and I will continue to do it. Except I'll be in my kitchen and it will be when the husband is at work and after the kids are asleep. Free from judgement, ya know? ;)
Really though, I was in tears after watching this. Even if you're not a dancer by any stretch of the imagination, it's still pretty amazing.
I just love dancing and miss it constantly. I hate that it's something you just kind of stop doing, you know? If you love cooking, you can always cook. If you love photography, there are always pictures to be taken. If you love reading, the world is full of books. But dance? It's a little harder to just 'do'. That is, unless I can convince Josh to turn our basement into a dance studio...I wish! ;)
For now, I'm grateful I have enough space in my kitchen to do {most} of what I'd like to do with my talents.
