The positive impact of dance on childhood
Testimony
When you are a child, life seems easy, you are full of dreams and illusions, susceptible to your environment, and discovering little by little who you are and where you are going. For children the absolute truth is their parents, his family, the first contact with love, with reality.
Several decades ago we did not have the technology we have today: social networks, internet, computer, smartphones, tablets, etc, children's games were going outside to play with friends, get wet, be on earth, climb the trees, television did not have the boom or influence that in the current era, the theater was more common, the circus, Radio, and homework required to open textbooks, the best library was the family one, or the school, what made us more adept at searching for information. The knowledge of some things if, we could see it on TV, in the books or in the talks of our family but without a doubt somewhere we had to listen to it.
Since I had a few 6 O 7 years ago I realized that ballet was a dream that I wanted to play with my own hands, the first time I had contact with dance was precisely at the entrance of a soap opera from that time, I do not remember what it was about and it is not a topic of interest either, but, what I do remember is the piano playing, and that dancer who was not the classic prototype, she was a little more robust with her hair down and dressed in white, stop in the dream of all baby ballerina: "The pointe shoes". I don't know exactly what got me hooked at the time but, when it was time for the soap opera, I ran to the television to see that girl dance.
When I informed my parents, that at that time they were still living together about my restlessness to dance they did not take me seriously, Well, as I had seen it on TV, they didn't think my interest could be genuine, but if in this case my contact with the world was television… Where do you suppose I could find out? Surely something similar has happened to you who read me or someone you know.
In the middle of my difficult childhood they spent almost 5 years, I never got the idea, the restlessness and the desire to learn to dance but my parents had other priorities, others that did not include my dreams. My mother was condemned to a degenerative disease and my father was years old who stopped living at home, my older sister at that time was a teenager and I only had to look out the window.
On a Monday in November what every child fears, the worst nightmare losing your mother, I was too young to understand some things, the only thing that mitigated my pain at that moment was that my dad had finally agreed to take me to ballet classes.
From the first class I knew that, it was the path of my dreams, that was really what i wanted to do, it was my refuge, my escape and the healthiest way to channel the stress that causes the loss of a being as important as the mother.
Ballet, like any other discipline, be it artistic or sports, it requires effort, constancy, and a lot of discipline to be able to achieve the goals that you set for yourself from the beginning. Ballet does not have easy or fast paths but without a doubt what it does is forge a character of discipline, effort, care, affection, of courage to overcome obstacles, gives you the understanding to think that things will not always turn out the way you want, so the tolerance for frustration becomes stronger.
You learn that in life you have to go step by step, goal with goal, little by little enjoying the bitter and sweet flavors, seeing and understanding the nuances of the path to the goal that you have forged. In my case, it was ballet that defined my life, and having that vision clear throughout my life, it helped me not lose sight of the path. The different stages from childhood, adolescence and early adulthood have many hard times and learnings with them, but dance for me, it was that leak channel, concentration to continue the path and discover where I was going or at least give me an idea.
The spins that life gives are like the wheel of fortune, sometimes you are up, others down but always turns and changes position, how the air moves. Unfortunately my time in dance did not go as planned., and at that moment I couldn't understand it, so one day I decided to bury my dream and move on with my life.
To the pass of the years, with children, carrera, And the stability that I was raised for, I realized that a part of my heart was stopped and it was ballet. Then I discovered that not everything in a dancer's career is lived on stage but below it..
Today I am a teacher and I manage six groups of girls from 3 until the 15 years, I can see the same faces of joy, illusion, of fear and sometimes of frustration when things are not going well and then I discovered that my destiny had a different direction, transcending. When you educate, you teach and share the knowledge you have is to leave a seed in another person, in another land that with your care will give its first fruits, is teaching children with dreams like yours to discover what they are capable of, is to share a smile, A hug, an hour that seems insignificant of your time but that for them is the most important moment of the day.
Knowledge is used to share it, if he goes to the grave with you then your passage through life was not transcendent, success is useless, talent and ability you cannot leave in others what for you meant the meaning of your life.
Ballet, to my almost 34 years to today, it was what gave vitality to my existence, from channeling my energies in the worst moments of my life, until I seek to see in others the same dreams that I have lived with all my life come true… For me it was ballet and for you, what is the engine of your life??