1...you bend over to pick up something and your leg shoots up to a 180*-plus angle
2...you laugh at a non-dancer when they say their feet hurt
3...you have more pointe shoes than street shoes
4...you suddenly can't count past 8
5...you worry about arthritis in high school - and it doesn't even run in the family
6...dance is life and the rest is spare time
7...you do grande jetes in the parking lot and down the hallway
8...you are well coordinated in dance rehearsals but trip over your own feet just walking
9...a new leotard makes your whole day
10...you don't think it's weird that boys wear tights
11...you tell the hairstylist that your Directors are only allowing you to cut your hair 3 inches
12...you use more rosin than soap
13...you pointed your toes during pull-ups for gym class
14...you knew more french terms than the kids in french class.
WHAT DO YOU SAY?
I've been a professional dancer 4 years but I'm realizing these are facts and habits of mine since middle school!
# 1 - True story - I bent over to pick up something, my leg grandbattements out to 180* plus, and I kick someone right in the face. How much do you want to bet, that was the last thing they were worrying about...
# 3 - under my bed is FULL of random street shoes but I still think the combined number of new and dead pointe shoes I have would outrun that...
# 7 - how many dancers out there have been so overjoyed by the huge amount of space you have when you're walking into a big park, or empty parking lot, and just start doing split leaps for no good reason? If you have, you know the crazy, awkward looks we get from random bystanders...
# 8 - I can do triple pirouettes but I've failed the balance portion of my yearly physical two years running..
# 9 - New Yumiko leotard anybody? My last order made my whole week.
# 10 - I respect more gay and straight men, that I've danced with, that wear tights than ones that have never worn a pair of tights and felt comfortable in them...
#s 11, 13, 14 - embarrassing but all true. No wonder dancers are considered "abnormal"
Anything to share 'my fellow SacB dancers'? :)
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