Question: What advice do you wish you could tell your 10-year-old self about dance?
Well this question has a very simple answer for me. I wish I could tell 10 year old Juwan that you can actually dance. Boys can dance, and it is way more than just girls in pink tights and tutus frolicking on a stage dancing to classical music. Dance is so much more than that. You can put of shows for hundreds and thousands of people, more than just your teddy bears (I had 12 to be exact). You can teach more than just math equations to them. You can eventually teach actually human beings. Through dance you learn how to get into something that’s deeper than yourself. You can learn life lessons, tell some pretty incredible and sometimes magical stories, and continually challenge yourself!
I wish I had the opportunity to be introduced to dance at an earlier age. But then again, would I be in the same place that I am today, had I been. Would dance have as much meaning to my life as it does now? I am sure that I would have gotten bullied even more for dancing. I wonder would I have let that stop me from pursuing something that I would fall in love with. I don’t know why I was introduced to dance so late, but I feel as if I was introduced to at the right time specifically for me.
