One of the reasons we love dance, watching it, doing it, thinking and talking about it, is because it is one of the purest expressions of our bodies and souls across time.
When we are babies and little kids, we naturally move to music without even thinking about it. I am raising my children in the city so we walk almost everywhere. I will never forget one day when my daughter, about a year old and newly walking, was toddling along the sidewalk in our neighborhood. A car drove past us with a loud thumping base. My daughter stopped in her tracks, listened for a second, and then immediately started bouncing to the rhythm. I had to laugh. I was feeling slightly annoyed with the loud volume of the music. But what I saw as an irritation, for her, was an opportunity. She got it right.
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