What Dance Truly Is

“What is dance?” Bethany questioned during ballet this afternoon.

These words forced my mind to think. What is dance? The truth is, the answer was not in my head but in my heart. The minute I stopped thinking and started feeling, I knew exactly how to answer (although I did not speak my thoughts out-loud).

Dance. A gift straight from God. My sixth and favorite sense of all. A very special part of every ballerina, or any kind of dancer at all. It is the sensation of being who you are– of moving with music and making it beautiful. Not just an art– a performing art. Not just a hobby or sport– a special one. It is connecting to a sixth sense, one that only a dancer possesses. It is not an act. It is not a game. It just… is. Dance.

What a fantastic ballet class today, to walk out with much more than choreography, but a feeling of life; I am a dancer. And as every dancer knows, dance is just… more.