So you think you can dance??

I usually wait for my bus home at a bus stop near the Youth park place at somerset. Most of the time, I get to see dance groups practising on the stage in the evening and some other people playing with their skate boards. And I start to think back on those times when I was so in love with dancing. Hm, I actually said I was... but I think I still am in love with dancing. Hip Hop, Funk, Modern, Jazz, Salsa... I really miss those times when I'll sweat it out practising and rehearsing for endless hours into the night, JUST for a 3 to 5 minute performance.

I knew I wanted to dance since Sec one.. I tried out for our red house cheerleading team (but didn't get in until my second year). We won the cheer routine competition that year and it was, perhaps, one of my proudest moments in st nicks. Rehearsing late into the week nights and even coming back school on weekends, going through the routine again and again and again and getting so stressed out as the Big day arrives and getting so upset that other houses have similar dance steps (though I never really understood this part. I mean, yeah, the routine should look nice with good moves, but you'll also need good team spirit and attitude to bring out the vitality in the routine itself...) but yeah, that's cheerleaders and cheerleading..... it's the same everywhere.

Didn't continue my dancing stuff in JC cos I thought I wanted to be a slacker. So, no cheerleading, no major performances and lotsa skipping school. But, I still did some dancing... Lin & I came out with some choreography for a teachers' day item but apparently the auditioning teachers didn't like the dance cos it was kinda sexy and so, it didn't get pass the censor board. I remember practising at this place near the grand staircase landing & the squash court (not the best place to do dance cos it was kinda dark, with no mirrors) Then, our class did an item for national day and we had to do a dance item as well, and it was a safe, conventional dance which would have been rated Parents Guidance-Not Necessary.

So my "dancing career" took another turn when I went to NTU. Modern Jazz had the Dancetitude performance at Nanyang Audi, Hall One had its own dance group, then its cheerleading team (which we were the champions in my year 2 as well) and we even took lessons at this dance studio somewhere near Laupasat. It was all good fun.

And last evening, as I sat alone at the bus stop, I asked myself if I'd ever be able to do all these again. To join a dance group and commit my time and energy, to ignite the weak dancing flame burning in my heart. I know I yearn to go back to dancing again, to feel the beats of the music and feel my body move along with each coordinated and synchronised move, to feel that I belong to a group with a common passion. Actually, I've been thinking of this for the past few months, and up til today, I'm still just thinking of it....


Our Unisus cheerleading days.