Everybody discovers dancing at their own age.
Some realize they want to dance as kids, most realize they'd like to know how sometime during their adult lives, and then there are some who never seem to feel the need.
I have been wanting to dance since I was 3 years old.
You would think it is genetic, right? Not at all! (Or so I thought!) I have had the strange luck of being born to two non-dancers.
My parents tell me they just never had the desire, and I have accepted this, as they had accepted the idea of their daughter becoming a professional dancer, and not a doctor, or a lawyer.
Imagine my surprise when I looked up from my plate of baked Salmon and asparagus, at my brother's wedding two years ago, to see my father shaking it on the dance floor! Thankfully, I had swallowed my food, or it surely would have fallen out of my mouth in front of the entire table.
The idea of my father doing anything not related to his job, or the computer, never even crossed my mind, simply because I had never before witnessed it.
And if it had, dancing would be the last thing I'd ever imagine him doing! As I was watched my father boogieing to Michael Jackson, I felt my brother tap me on the shoulder.
What's Dad doing? Apparently, he had never witnessed such a sight either! This is a true story I tell my students when they say they don't think they can ever learn how to dance.
The desire and the ability to dance is inside of everyone.
(It has to be if even my father felt the need to do it!) It is just a question of finding the right time, the right music, and the right place.
You don't have to be a "dancer" to want to express yourself through movement.
On the day of my brother's wedding, my father danced, because he was happy.
For all we know, it may have been for the first time in his 50+ years.