Dancing is always interesting me that I want to try and learn one time in my life. It is an art that most of people want to discover and experience. I used to try some kind of dance like aerobic, or zumba. However, this was the first time I tried in modern dance that gave me strong expression.

I have done the first modern dance class in my life. During the class, I have seen some changes in my body. They are just small changes, but I can fell it. I still remembered the first days of class; I felt down a lot because I could not flexible with the directions. I just kept in mind that I had to turn right to the left or to the right. It made my steps hard and not flexible. However, now I realized that I just needed to let my body move the way it wants to. I should not care a lot about moving right or wrong. As well as so, I feel my body is more flexible and dynamic now. Every part in my body can move almost exactly the way I want them to be like leg, foot, arm, belly, etc. Especially, I really loved the way the professor let us have free dance between the exercises. I was not a good dance person. However, I learnt a lot. I learnt from the professor, and I also learnt was from my classmates. I often looked at the way they danced. From that, I repeated them by my own style and creating. Free dance time was my favorite time of class because I could learn a lot and express myself most. I think it was really a good way to learn new thing and create something new. Overall, my body changed somehow, maybe I could not tell all of them now, but I could realize it later in future events.

At the first times, I thought that those small exercises would not help me in training my body or dancing. However, I was wrong. They were the basic steps, which was the foundation for me to improving my skills in dancing. I figured out that those steps we had in the class was base one the basic exercised. Therefore, it was easier for us to do harder steps later. In addition, at the first time, I thought that modern dance is something slowly, lightly, or very easy. I totally changed my mind when taking this class. It was very hard that I think I had to take a lot of time to practice and improve my skills. I had to put of lot of force and strength in it too. Sometimes, there were some steps that I thought it was impossible for me to do. However, after many days practice and I overcame it, I felt very good and happy. My feeling liked I have discovered something new and interesting that I have never done before. Although I did not do excellent job in class, I was still proud of my changing and trying.

Dancing was not only make me better in physical field, it also helped me in encourage my emotion or feeling. Dancing was a term of exercise, which always made me reduce stress after my classes, exams, or daily problems. It always went with the good music that help my mind open and feel better. Taking dance class helped me reduce stress and do better job in working and studying. On another hand, dancing also helped me have better wellness. I slept well everyday. I gained muscle, which was really good. This leaded to make me stronger. I did not expect a lot before taking this class. However, dancing was an awesome physical type that very helpful in many sides of out lives.

The only thing I always remembered in this class was that my professor always said taking space for us. This was really useful, not only in dancing but also in the real life. I just tried to ask myself that could I be successful while I am always nervous or often find for me a small space in my life. I should get chance from getting big steps, big space, showing myself for the world. It was not just taking space basically. For me, it also meant that we should be confident in every situation. After dance class, I also realized that I could have equal skills or knowledge with the other people if I practiced enough. I meant at the first time, I felt I was so bad compare to the others. However after practicing and trying a lot, I caught them steadily and the gap was smaller between us. This is also related to me in real life that nothing is impossible. I believe that as long as I try my best, I can do everything, or at least I can satisfy with the results I give force in it.

What I was surprise most in this class was that it was so hard than what I thought before. This was jus fine because sometime we need some challenges to try ourselves with that.

In conclusion, I love this class. I also love my professor. She is such a talent dancer and a sweet professor.