Link: Evolution: Dance dance….
Have had a bad bout of cold cough n fever.. and have been feasting my eyes on some great dance movies..
I watched Dirty Dancing, Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, Dance With Me, Save the Last Dance, The Company, Centre Stage and Flashdance!!!… PHEW!!!!! It was awesome!
I somehow love dancing so much that I can dance non-stop for hours. and I’ve done it. Its exhilerating.
Once when I was down, somebody asked me "What is the one thing that
makes you feel life.. makes you feel ALIVE. and without thinking twice,
I blurted DANCING. Watching all these beautiful movies, I could not
stop gleefully smiling while the dances were being enjoyed. WOW written
all over my face.
I was once watching "The Next Karate Kid" and Mr. Miyagi, the spiritual
karate guru said "Never trust a spiritual guru who cannot dance". Its a
language of the body, its only natural.
Now Imagine that for someone like me in a place like Mumbai, there’s no place you can go salsa or ballroom.
I went ahead and learnt Standard Ballroom instead. I was soooo happy
once I knew how to dance. My whole group would meet twice a week for
‘practice’ 
And then came a stand still.. the class got over. We all
got busy with work and our own lives. 
Once again, I was back to just
imagining myself indulging in two-some forms of dancing only in my
dreams.
And then… Salsa meeups happened. It was such a relief. For all
those who want to dance, want to learn how to dance… there you go.
I read a quote once by Plato. It said "To sing well and to dance is to be well educated."
Somehow dancing has always held a sacred space in my heart. Once in
class, my ballroom instructor told us that Rumba traditionally was
danced as a prelude to lovemaking. Watching some of those dance moves
in Havana Nights has only made some of my notions on dancing stronger.
To me, dancing has been a beautiful connection between two bodies, two
minds and two souls; all at different times. Each connection has been
unique, and each more honest than the last, like an unspoken language
of the soul. So beautiful is that feeling that it is physically
difficult for me to stop dancing once I’ve started. Ever since I can
remember, I’ve felt this way. And now, after all these years I can
proudly say I’m a dancer. I forced my sister into dancing (she
absolutely loves me now for forcing her then) She’s now a proud
Bharatnatyam Graduate and can move her feet to any kind of dance form
now.
I hope to someday start teaching one or another form of dancing -
maybe salsa, maybe ballroom. Just the thought of it is enough to put me
in seventh heaven.
Another thought that comes to my head now is that if someone ever asks me how I would like to die – I would say While dancing
Ending with my favorite philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s quotes
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star" &
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
Truly, I put this art form on the highest pedestal.
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