Behind the Scenes of My Storybook :)
Current mood: thinking… about life in general
The question: Does dance come as naturally and easily to you, as learning to play 9 instruments came to you?
The Answer: Actually the answer is both yes and no. I am very odd but not all at the same time. In private lessons I get through things very quickly and unexplained only shown… even learning new moves. When I am learning in a class of many people though there is something about it that prevents me from learning as quickly. Take learning a turning jete, back attitude for example… I was taught the right side in a private lesson and then I was taught the left side in a class. I cannot do the left side the way I do right. The right side has much more of a traveling feeling to it where as the left side stays in place and rotates on an axel placed at the attitude so it almost looks like seconds airborne. So, to sum it all up, LEARNING dance in the proper environment comes very quickly and naturally but mastering things came just as quickly as learning to play the extremely high notes on the clarinet or flute. They took time. Just the way the clarinet became what I excelled at, the flute easiest, the guitar hardest, and oboe most natural, I have that with different styles of dance. Ballet is what I excel at, Lyrical/Jazz is the easiest, and hip hop is the hardest. Hip hop truly is not hard nor is tap. I simply do not know how to let go as well. Pointe is the most natural for me. The way I think of my shoes as a part of me is similar to the way I thought of a double reed versus a single. My pointe shoe is an extension of my foot and a double reed was an extension to my lungs where as my flats are a slight burden and a single reed took much more time to become as easy. I know for a fact that I would not have been able to achieve this if I didn’t BELIVE in myself. Going back to what I was saying about my ideal learning environment, mine just so happens to be private lessons with things left unexplained because when I was younger I learned to be dependent on other dancers around me and when it is just the teacher and me there is no one to “look answers off of” I suppose you could say. Most people would have an ideal learning environment of either private with things well explained so that they can get the individual attention you need or in a group of people with things well explained so that yes, you can ask other questions but so can other people and other people you will see making mistakes so that you can learn off of them but for me as I previously stated that runs the risk of becoming dependent on other dancers. But to answer the question in short Learning comes quickly but it takes awhile to actually MASTER the combination or move.
dance in this situation could be viewed litterly as my parents in the sence that dance has raised me for the most part… for me, dance… its like that story book love between prince charming and the long lost princess. sorry to use such an anoligie but it for some completly and totally random reason it was on my mind… but back to my point. For me dance… it came and it sweapt me off my feet and I’ve been in love ever since… so yes in a way it is indeed my way out of reality when things get super tough and when things are “normal” DANCE IS REALITY… so again yes that is why we are at the studio every week working our asses off… so that we can get through everything day by day moment by moment… our non-dance friends could never understand this because they dont know how we feel toward dance they don’t understand that for us, it is litterly our lives… and as for what I want? why should that matter? what I want is what I have… and I have gods grace to be able to anything in this world that I so choose so long as I put my mind, heart, and my very soul into what I am doing… smarts doesn’t explain why I can play 9 diffrent instruments, sing, DANCE, and act… yes, I may be smart but I personally think that someone is watching out for me 
but then again… maybe not… maybe I’m mentally strong? this is a debate I have had with myself for very many years… I personally am at the studio because dance… makes me feel indescribeable… it makes me feel free of “the chains…” the chains being all of the tough spots in life that many teens don’t know how to get free of ya know? I personally don’t even know if dance was a concious decition for me… I think it was and still is one of those things that is like breathing… you don’t CHOOSE to breath and you don’t have to think about it either… thats why teaching can get hard for me at times becuse I DON’T think about the movements… only when its new or I’m concentrating too hard… for me, dance, it just… comes to me… I think I’ve pretty much answered your question(s) now… sorry its long but when it comes to dance I suppose if I absutly had to I could answer how I feel about dance in one word and that word as I said previously was “indescribable” but I felt like writting and so I did 