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Personal Narrative: My Dance
I dance classical ballet since I was 3 years old and ever since then I have been doing it. My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem as Manon, especially her Final Pas de Deux with Jonathan Cope.
When I am dancing I just fell the flow in my body, the music is carrying me through the stage. My heart rate starts to get accelerated, my muscle are sore for the day before but I just keep going; my mind is unware of them. Feathery pirouettes till the edge of the stage, my feet are skimming deliciously the floor, my hands appeared to be mindless but somehow they are strong as if their only job was keeping an angel from falling. I fell my whole body radiating passion while trying to reach my own dance. Suddenly… a pause… I am not my anymore, whom I am?

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