More than experiences at RCN: Just dance!

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

- Oh! You can actually dance!

This was the expression of my mother when for the first time she saw me on top of a stage, performing for a real show. Many people think that dance has always been part of my life, but that is not the truth...

This first time, when my mum saw me dancing was this last September, when someone posted a video in Youtube of a choreography that I did for the Second Year Show.

When I tell this to some of my friends or teachers in RCN they can´t believe me. “It seems that you have always been dancing”.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain

Well, maybe it was a hidden passion, but back home I was too shy to be in any performance, and being usually labeled, back in Spain I was the “study girl”, never the dancer.

It seems even difficult to explain here how much dance has meant to me in this school.

When we first arrived, a couple of weeks later the first show came in. I had to choices: I could keep being the shy girl from Spain, who never even dared to dance too much in a party with her family, or I could have a “new beginning” in terms of dancing. It was a challenge to myself. I decided to overcome my fears and go on stage. “These people don´t know me anyway” was my thought, when some doubts came to my mind...

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~Hopi Indian Saying

But ever since then, I have kept dancing, and it is ironic how in this school one of the features that defines me, or let´s say my label is that of “dancer”. That´s why it was so difficult for those who know me just as I am in Norway being a shy girl not willing to dance in front of anybody. Dancing in this school has always been a great pleasure. I joined the Dance EAC from the beginning, and in the first year that helped me to get to know many people with the same passion, who will always be there if you are planning to perform any type of choreography in a show, or who know how to have fun just through dancing at any party.

I haven´t miss a single party since we came, nor there has been a single show where I haven´t participated. Who was going to say two years ago, that in this school I even ended up being the Dance EAC leader!

Leading this EAC has been a great pleasure due to the willing group of first years that joined us for the last two terms. They are enthusiastic, and passionate, and even thought not all of them have the same skills for dancing, they have always showed a great deal of energy, helping each other and showing what they could offer.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille

I am very proud of how the group has worked this year. Not everything has been easy, and some challenges had to be faced like issues with attendance, punctuality... It is not easy to be in such a position where you have to face your classmates and friends as if you were a teacher.

If I would have to analyse how my performance helped others, I would say that given the surprise that for many represented the fact that I was not a dancer back home, people that didn´t have any background on dancing, and who were just wanting to try something new decided to join us, and they did it with no shame, just being themselves and enjoying the process.

Dance is more than just five letters, and in this school I have learnt that it can be art, sport, fun, way of meeting new people, cultural, passionate, emotional, symbolic, a dream... and a new face of myself that I just discovered.