Dancing In The Spotlight

• Melanie Ribaux, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2010

Dancing in the spotlight
I remember the first time danced, it made me fell free. I will never forget it.

I had been begging my mum since I was a little girl. After years of nagging my mum put me in a dancing school, Two weeks after enrolling me, my mum got a call, it was the dancing school. I just made it in. I was so happy that I made it into JYTSMP dancing school.

It was the first day of dancing; it felt like the first day of school. At first I did not have any friends, but by the end of class I had more friends than I needed. It took a lot of practise to get a lot of the hard trickrs. It came to the concert, the class was getting harder. A lot of the kids stoped dancing 4 weeks before the concert so we needed to change half of the dance.

It was the day of the concert I was nervous as I walked on the stage, my heart was pounding. I could see all of the eyes looking at me. Half way into the dance I fell down, every one was laughing, instead of just felling I made it look like it was a part of the dance.

I learnt to go for it, not to hold back. To try now things that I think I can not do. Most of the Arco tricks we did I was not sure that I would be that good; I just said to myself ‘I can do it.’ It changed my life because now it plays a part in my life.

I have never forgotten the first time I danced or how I felt dancing on stage.