Dancing is my tool of escaping reality into a world that is filled with over flowing emotions and inner beauty. I dance because it lets me express my feelings, whether it’s pain, sorrow, anger, or happiness. When I’m performing, people don’t see me as Julie, they see a whole new person. A given chance to being someone else other than myself. When I perform on stage, dance allows me to be who ever I choose to be. I’m in “character” and my goal is to manipulating people in believing that it’s real. A person is born with natural abilities to dance, whether he or she decides to be great in it is their choice of passion. Dance is a passion I’ve adopted in high school from a group called Marching Band and Colorguard. They taught me about performance and dance, which I followed for a great 3 years of high school. I must admit, dancing at first was a huge intimidation and learning to dance was a great struggle. It’s like learning to walk, a basic skill. But now it’s like breathing, a way to survive. Practice makes better they always say, so what do you do when you fall out of a pirouette? You fall to get back up and you better do it again until it becomes your second nature. From that, I auditioned for my school’s dance company called IndepenDANCE which was the highlight of my high school career.  Dancing was my pride, it gave me respect amongst my peers and it helped me better myself. Being a part of a dance company was a whole new experience that won’t be forgotten. I thought of IndepenDANCE as a great opportunity to grow and sought many great doorways to success. What keeps me begging for more is the excitement and adrenaline of being on stage, with a house filled with an audience that paid to see the work of art that has been created, it truly is such an awarding exhiliration. IDance co. taught me hardwork, commitment, and group working skills that I’m lucky to have. Often after a hard days worth of dancing, my muscles would ache or tear but the sweat, pain, and tears would only pushed me further knowing that I worked to my fullest ability and that’s all everyone could ask of me. Dance is my choice of drug. I need it to keep sane, without it, I wouldn’t know what else to cope my overwhelming thoughts and difficulties. Being able to dance gives me that extra boost of confidence and I wear that confidence on my sleeve, but not to boast.