I miss dance. I really do. I can go for weeks without thinking about it, but as soon as I hear the right music I feel a strong urge to dance.
In college, I did South Indian classical dance (Kuchipudi) every Sunday and went out dancing at least once a weekend. When I moved to Seattle, I didn't go out much the first year since I didn't have any female friends to go dancing with and I felt awkward going dancing with single guys when I was in a relationship. By the second year, I had an awesome group of girlfriends and we went out once a month or a little more often, which made a huge difference in my life. I got to get the dancing out of my system every so often then.
After I got married, the husband and I moved to San Francisco, where we didn't have a lot of friends. We didn't want to go out clubbing by ourselves, so we only went dancing a handful of times. We moved again -- to LA -- right after all our friends moved to SF and had dance competitions on the kinect without us.
LA has been even harder, because most clubs are sooo far away and the lines at all of them are so long (I'm just used to getting in free in Atlanta after a max of a 15 minute wait, but maybe things are different in real big cities!). I almost made it out one night in LA, but we waited in line for over an hour, so we gave up. Hopefully business school will give me a chance to relive those fun times.
But it's not even clubbing dancing or salsa dancing that I miss. I really miss Kuchipudi, I miss the occasional Indian dance I did in high school, and I just miss dancing in general.
Maybe I just need more evenings alone when I can dance to the iPod by myself =)
In college, I did South Indian classical dance (Kuchipudi) every Sunday and went out dancing at least once a weekend. When I moved to Seattle, I didn't go out much the first year since I didn't have any female friends to go dancing with and I felt awkward going dancing with single guys when I was in a relationship. By the second year, I had an awesome group of girlfriends and we went out once a month or a little more often, which made a huge difference in my life. I got to get the dancing out of my system every so often then.
After I got married, the husband and I moved to San Francisco, where we didn't have a lot of friends. We didn't want to go out clubbing by ourselves, so we only went dancing a handful of times. We moved again -- to LA -- right after all our friends moved to SF and had dance competitions on the kinect without us.
LA has been even harder, because most clubs are sooo far away and the lines at all of them are so long (I'm just used to getting in free in Atlanta after a max of a 15 minute wait, but maybe things are different in real big cities!). I almost made it out one night in LA, but we waited in line for over an hour, so we gave up. Hopefully business school will give me a chance to relive those fun times.
But it's not even clubbing dancing or salsa dancing that I miss. I really miss Kuchipudi, I miss the occasional Indian dance I did in high school, and I just miss dancing in general.
Maybe I just need more evenings alone when I can dance to the iPod by myself =)
