This past weekend I attended my dance studio’s annual convention, where we have three days of workshops with guest instructors from around the world, and three evenings of shows with performances and competitions. I have been a member of the studio since 2008, but had fallen away from it for about the past 2 years.

For the past several years I have worked at the convention, but not danced – I’m so busy helping run things that I made excuses to not perform. I re-joined classes last January and decided to do the class performance at the convention. I am so grateful to my teacher for her love and support, and she reminded me before I went on stage that I am a dancer! It felt good to get back to performing, and several folks said they were glad to see me on stage again, so that was really nice.

At the after-party on Sunday, one of our guests came up and said “I saw you on stage – I recognized your hair and said ‘I know her!’ ” We laughed – most folks know me as a very visible volunteer, and don’t realize I also dance!

She was very complimentary about my dancing, and I really appreciated it. It wasn’t until she was leaving that my tired brain made the connection that she was one of our guest instructors, and I had just been given a complement by an internationally known, award winning dancer… 😲

So this weekend has rekindled my dance fire. I have joined a couple of online fitness challenges to help keep me motivated and active. I know I say “I’m going to exercise more” a lot and fail to follow through, but I’m going to hold on to the comments and compliments of this weekend and use them to keep me going!