Dance as us

What is it that makes dancing so exotic so primitive yet civilized? Why do we dance anyway? If body languages gives hint to the true thinking of the person whom you are observing, then isn't dancing the biggest give away of your inner self?

When I was in Taiwan, I heard rumours of teachers who can understand who you are by the way you dance. I didn't believe it at that time… I sucked, but now as I progressed, I begin to see how my dance partner's personality comes through her dance. I began to see or imagine that it is in fact her personality that is dancing, no matter what the routine is, the routine just serves to accentuate that, because her personality is in every move.

However, I have doubts in my belief. Have I wanted to believe it so much that I started associating certain trait of her style with that theory? Or have I been right all along? I have a harder time assessing the other dancers at studio 2720 because well, good dancers don't like to be criticize by their opponents. Criticize because I am their opponent and everything I say will eventually become criticzime.

And what of the world champions? They are so good that I cannot even come close to guess what it is that they are. I realize that I can only determine those who are less skillful than me and not better than me. It is based on experience after all.

I want dancing to be indeed your personality because then, I can work on my self and knowing still that I am actually working on my dancing as well. Well, here's a few major point of what I believe is my partner's personality that came through dancing:

-The need for someone to hold her hand and tell her exactly what to do.
-Fear of showing her sexuality
-Wanting to be good but not knowing how to work towards it.

Tasha told me, I am serious and she's vanity.

I've begun studying people's gait as well. Skin tone, wrinkles, palmistry. I believe that what a person did to their life is reflected alot on their body. Just like a person who tries to be cool and fit in high school wears their back pack on one side and because of some reason never got rid of that habit. This type of person usually has one shoulder higher than the other when they try to stand straight, or a hip bone higher than the other because their muscles has forgotten how to relaxe. I sometimes wonder, do others see what I see?