So this week's Twisted Mix Tape theme is your favorite dance music. I suppose most people upon hearing this theme start thinking of partying and clubbing and the dancing that occurs in those locations. But I like to be different, and that's not what comes to my mind.
From the age of 3, until I graduated from high school at 17, I took ballet, tap & jazz. By the time I stopped I was dancing 20+ hours a week. With at least 14 dance recitals, and umpteen-million actual dances performed, when I think of "dance music" I think of the songs I spent hours upon hours listening to in little snippets as I learned carefully choreographed steps.
Thankfully for you (and me) all my dance pictures are still at my parents' house, so no photographic evidence will be presented today. So without further adieu....my dance memories.
Brick House - The Commodores
One - A Chorus Line
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Let's Get Physical - Olivia Newton John
Shim Sham Shimmy - Leonard Reed
So there you have it...what dance music means to me.
OK I LOVE THIS LIST! First of all I remember seeing Chorus Line in middle school in Chicago. Going to the theater with my parents, it was amazing. After that I must have listened to that soundtrack non-stop for a year. I still know every word. Brick house given. Love disco. ONJ and Let's Get Physical!! YES!
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