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Cameron Maselli 4-4-09 Moran Middle School 8th grade essay contest The Dream //As I am walking backstage the nerves hit me like a ton of red bricks. I realize I am about to do the dance of my life. Julliard is in the audience looking for the best of the best. And hopefully I’m one of then. When I start dancing it feels effortless and the crowd starts cheering.// This is what I wish was happening to me. It is my dream to go to school at Julliard and be a professional dancer. I’ve been dancing ever since I was two years old at Judeth Parks. And hitting that stage still frightens me. It all starts off with those seven months of hard training. You learn all of your dances. But first there are certain exercises that you must do for each type of dance. Some things like sit ups and botmons for jazz, plias and tondus for ballet at the barre, and time steps and hell combinations for tap. We usually do this for around a month’s time. This takes up time but is needed for the show. That way you know you are ready. Then you can start the dance. The teachers would first tell you the theme of your dance. This year I am doing Mission Impossible for jazz, Fame for ballet, and I’m being a show girl and Indians Jones for tap class. It is all so exciting but it’s hard to memorize it all. I do six dances so sometimes it is overwhelming. But some how every year of dance I find a way to do it all. You have to make sure you are fully into committed into dancing. It takes perseverance and commitment to do all of what I do. Next comes the week of the dress rehearsals then recitals. With dress rehearsals you are there from 4:00-9:30. It is exhausting work but worth it in the end when the recitals are here. Your get your hair done in French braids and your make up done full out. You have the bold purple eye shadow, heavy blush, and bright red lipstick on. Some say you look like a clown with the entire thick make up, but that is what it takes. You get on your costume and go onto the stage with everyone chanting your name. //The lights hit you, the music starts playing, and you start to move your feet. It just feels so good and relieving. It feels like me. And after the show I meet up with the people from Julliard Performing Arts school. They said they see potential in my dancing and… … they give me a scholarship! This has to be the best thing that has ever happened to me.// //My dream!// I wish that really happened. And hopefully it will happen to me in the future. But till then I will practice, practice, practice and keep up everything that I have been doing. Julliard watch out!