Dancing_Queen

Dancing Queen Dancing Queen It was a warm August day, early on a Saturday morning. The year was 1989, and I was four years old. I was off to my first ever dance class. I remember going to a “special” store in Terre Haute the week before and picking out the perfect leotard to wear to class. I remember stopping at Payless Shoe Store on the way home and picking up my very first pair of tap shoes. And I remember my excitement and nervousness the day this picture was taken. Little did I, or my parents know that this day would mark the first day of my long journey with dancing and how many more early Saturday mornings there would be. The first day of lessons was filled with tapping my foot, and looking at my shoes to understand where my taps were and what noises they made. I began learning a sing and dance number the second Saturday of classes called “No Can Do.” The second month of classes introduced a pleasant surprise, my cousin was joining my class and we were going to do a duet. A week later another dance, year, first, saturday, years, school, after, tap, high, teacher, out, night, morning, little, lessons, later, going, day, auditorium, team, stage, recital, next, great, finally, ever, early, dancing, big, two, students, softball, shoes, parents, old