“Let’s Dance!!”

The idea of back to dance again came up when I had nothing to do to exercise my body. I used to have Wushu but I quit for some reason. I was thinking to have a certain exercise which makes me feel fit and healthy. So I joined an gym club and I choose Taebo program. At the first class, the music was so loud and the moves were so strange. I presumed the moves weren’t taebo at all! That was a big deception for me!! In short word, I did not enjoy the class at all. I decided to quit the class and search for other alternatives. Dancing was one a brilliant idea that I discovered. So, I search information as many as possible. I want to learn many dances, especially the traditional ones.

I know and realize that dance is one of my passions. I was connected with this matter when I was I child in many ways. I not remember exactly how I get connected but I have a huge interest on them. I always amazed by ballet dance when I was kid, I even get a bit obsessed (until today). But since I grew in a small town there were no ballet class, so I learnt them from a japanese manga “Mari-chan”. I took just the basic moves from its pictures. What I amazed about it, when I was kid, I never saw a real ballet dance/ballet performance but I was so sure that ballet was a beautiful kind of dance and I adore it very much. I think I saw once in television but I was not quite sure about that either.

When I was around first years in elementary school, I remember one of my aunt always asked me to have a modern dance together with a modern music. We dance like crazy!!! We did it almost eveyday, after I got home from school. No wonder, I never had difficulties when in junior high school finishing dance assignments, especially the modern ones. I get along with them easily heheheh…. . It just like I have been doing that for years.

Traditional dance is also one of my favorite. In Muntilan when I was in elementary school we used to have dance lesson. But as I remembered, the class was too full and the dance was never finish (I am not even remember what the dance look like). Last time I learned traditional dance seriously when I was in 12 years old, first time when I moved to Malang city. I had a dance lesson at Senaputra. At that time, I was not very confidence and still innocent, so I was not quite like it. But after 12 years, I learn it again through Beskalan dance and it is more interesting and I want learn more traditional dances!!! Recently, I learned traditional dance again after 12 years. I join the Senaputra again, but this time with Kindergarten teachers!!! This time, I learn 3 kind of dances-traditional ones, kancil, topi dance (modern style)-. So much fun, meet new people that I have never really contact with. So, let’s dance now!!!

9 May 2008