Old Dance Shoes

When I was young, like many a young girl, I danced. I loved it. The sense of motion, of expression, of moving through space.

During this verse of my life I don't have much time to seek out dance, but do not say no to any opportunity I stumble across. I'm happy to dance again once the chorus comes around.

A friend was telling us about her daughter taking up dance classes, and how she, the friend, wistfully thought back to her dance days. (I suggested she get dance shoes of her own.)

Just because we can no longer go en pointe in our advancing years doesn't mean we can't still put on our shoes.

Here are some of mine.

These are my ballet flats. They've served me well for at least 25 years. I danced CATS in these.

These are character shoes. They can be used for soft-shoe dancing, but are mainly for stagework and acting.

These are my Modern Dance shoes. I also use them for Bellydancing.

My tap shoes. I've been through several pairs. Tap was my first love of dance at age 3. While the weakest of my dance styles, I still hold a special place in my heart for the noisy shuffle of tappity-tappity.  I need to take more classes when I get time.

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Her Grace will post pictures of toe shoes as soon as she can find them.

Thousand Hand Guan Yin

Romance and Beauty go together.  Or rather, I should say, you can find beauty in anything romantic.

Take a look at this beautiful Thousand Hand Guan Yin.  Is the beauty in their mastery of dance, or is the beauty in the fact that every single one of the dancers is deaf?  When I dance, I am very much reliant on the music. How much in awe am I over the accomplishment of these beautiful dancers.

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Her Grace loves to dance, though she is rarely this graceful when she does. Still, that never stops her. She dances any chance she gets.