"I grab your hand and lead you on the floor, hold you in my arms and dance til we can’t anymore. Yeah, it’s a good night for dancing. It’s a good night for you."

Josh Abbott Band, Good Night for Dancing

"It's all I can do to hang on

to keep me from falling

into old familiar shoes."

[image by so you think you can dance]

Sarah McLachlan, Stupid

Collecting Your Jar of Hearts

"No I can't take one more step towards you, cause all that's waiting is regret. And don't you know I'm not your ghost anymore, you lost the love I loved the most."

Christina Perri, Jar of Hearts

Loves of my Life (V) - - College Edition

{spotlight}

merelise harte...

lives with me.

is my shoulder to cry on.

loves cats with a passion.

is incredibly loyal.

has great taste in clothes.

is an alpha delta pi.

stands up for me.

dances beautifully.

is my best friend.

"She walked in when everyone else walked out. Celebrate her friendship." -Kobi Yamada, She...

If We Were a Movie...

"Take it while it comes cause it don’t last long. Hesitate and the moment’s gone. Run in the rain and howl at the moon, fall in love way too soon. Take my hand as the music starts, and we’ll dance to the beat of your heart."

Cory Morrow, Beat of Your Heart

I'll Ask You To Hold My Heart in Your Hand

This partnership + this choreographer + this song = this beautiful dance.

Nobody's perfect

"All my life I've wanted to be one of American Ballet Company's perfect ballerinas. I wanted to be you, Juliette. But I'm not you, and I'm not perfect, I'm just me, bad feet and all, and I'm starting to think that I like that just as much."

-Center Stage

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**one of the most important lessons I ever learned from a movie

let your hair down

pretty pirouettes

**image by curlytops

"She realized she was lucky - because she could actually see it - how the trees got more beautiful each year...how they danced with such graceful pride, surviving each season's change...and she knew their beauty lied not in the perfection, but the growth...and she could see it - in the trees, the people around her, and some days, even in herself...and so she would dance"

celebrate daddies

dance like no one is watching...

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion." — Martha Graham

"She realized she was lucky - because she could actually see it - how the trees got more beautiful each year...how they danced with such graceful pride, surviving each season's change...and she knew their beauty lied not in the perfection, but the growth...and she could see it - in the trees, the people around her, and some days, even in herself...and so she would dance" -Kourtni Lind

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking" 

— Agnes De Mille

"Some dance to remember, some dance to forget. " 

— The Eagles

tiny dancer in my head