Check out our new Guest Blogger Jiselle Granderson who talks about her ‘passion’ for dance and her right to ‘express’ herself through dance.

Ask me anytime what my passion is and you will get the same answer – while I love to write, and I love to read, my REAL passion is dancing.  Movements are undefined; they are steps that guide you to where you wish to be. When you move whether walking, driving, even kayaking or swimming, there are steps (not literal) you take, to guide you through subtle shifts that you construct to guide your body to where you want it to be; and that’s dance to me.

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”  ~Martha Graham (American Dancer/Choreographer)

When I dance, there is this sense that I’ve connected to my soul, the one driving force behind my existence. My mind becomes pure in thought, my body releases occasional burst of sparks namely, motivation and will, just stimulating the many molecules, veins and limbs of my human figure.

My mind dives deep into a chasm of emotion and passion allowing me to move to the beat of my own drum. At intervals, I may stop breathing for a second, while my eyes begin to close allowing my body to calm to meet the next move I’m about to do/create.

I breathe… and breathe… my body is at its’ calm, my senses are in full force, my mind at ease, my soul ready for the world and my spirit eager to move.

It is here my eyes become the words that I speak and my body defines the language of which I convey I am a dancer … I release, I create, I touch…

I dance because it makes me happy; I dance because it sets me free and I dance because dancing is the only way I know how to truly express myself.