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- Waiting for the music to start
- Getting all of the hairspray out of your hair
- When your teacher yells 'YES' while you're dancing
- Getting your split flat
- New soft shoes
- Watching the curtians open from on stage
- Perfect pirouettes
- New blisters
- Putting your dance shoes on
- Going full out
- Doing tendu's in line
- Pulling your tights up to your waist to keep belly tucked in
- When an impossible stretch becomes easy
- Taking pictures when you should be rehearsing
- Taking off and itchy costume
- Taking your dance portriats
- Feeling your heart to start beat faster when holding your beginning pose
- I cant, I have dance
- The crazy looks you get when you go out to eat in stage makeup
- When you're having a horrible day, but then you get to class
- People never understand why your knees are covered in bruises
- Keeping a dance journal
- The urge to dance down every grocery store aisle, empty or not
- The smell of the studio
- Taking your shoes off after a long class
- Going across the floor
- Landing jumps silently
- The sudden need to pee backstage
- Turning the dance away from the mirrors and not getting confused
- Quick changes
- Pep-talks
- The taste of lipstick
- Getting flowers
- Finding bobbypins all over the place
- Finding bobbypins in your hair, even though you swore you got them all
- New floor burns
- Dress Rehersal
- Seeing your friends in normal clothes with hair down
- Making a perfect bun
- Your dance family
- Flex. Pointe. Repeat
- Finishing an ab workout
- discountdance.com
- When the teacher uses you as an example for something good.
- Thera-bands
- Finally nailing a piece of hard choreography
- Having a second home, the studio
- Doing one more pirouette than usual
- Stoping a run in your tights with nailpolish
- Water breaks
- Laying on the dance studio floor
- The mirrored walls
- Some count 123, I count 5678.
- It's barres not bars
- Opening night
- When your dancing so hard that your bun/pony tail falls out
- When your hip pops
- The smell of hairspray
- When people get grossed out by your flexablity
- That feeling you get when your waiting in the wings
- Lines on your stomach from your tights
- Learning new choreography
- Doing your old routines at the end of the year
- What happens at the studio, stays at the studio
- The foot imprints in your shoes
- Rehearsing with your costume for the first time
- Trying to go to the bathroom with tights and a leotard on
- When a teacher shares one of their little dance secrets
- Talking about your new dance costumes
- Naturally sleeping in possé
- Your "mess up face"
- Being the most flexible one in class
- Finally landing a hard leap
- Chaning out of your regualr clothes
- Getting black stains on your feet and tights from your jazz shoes
- Dancing through an injury because you cant imagine missing a performance
- Finding random bruises
- Having all eyes on you
- When your body is covered in sweat after a hard class
- Toe Tap
- Going through your dance steps in your head during class
- Seeing your piece come to life onstage
- Dancing barefoot and later realizing how dirty your feet are
- When someone takes out their bun and you're shocked at how long their hair is
- Rolling up your rights
- Achieving a dance goal
- When people see you do a split and you can hear them groan in pain at the sight of it
- Taking off stage makeup and feeling like a whole new person
- Stepping out of the studio to a nice breeze
- Sneaking texts when your teacher isnt looking
- Trying to explain your bruises and scars to people at school
- The smell of new leather shoes
- Hyper-extensive legs
- Getting new cool music from class
- Seeing your teacher beaming with pride
- Not calling ballet shoes "ballet slippers"
- Dancer legs
- Taking your tights off after ballet
- Praying your kids will love to dance as much as you do
- How you get your best choreography ideas when sitting down
- Your very first pair of dance shoes
- Knowing which shoe goes on which foot because they have molded to the feet
- When your mouth goes bone dry after an amazing performance
- Standing ovations
- Doing a pirouette and ending it with a perfect balance
- How can we spend half the class just staring at ourselves infront of the mirror
- How sucky your flexiblity is the first day back at dance classes
- When your teacher uses you to demonstrate something
- Having to go out in public with your stage makeup
- Your wavy just-took-my-bun-out hair
- Standing ovations
- Naturally standing in 5th
- Hobbling around school when you're super sore
- When you finally got the OK to go en pointe
- Im a Bunhead and Im proud
- Cherishing every dance costume youve ever had
- Overhearing your Dance teacher say nice things about you
- Hearing a song from an old number and feeling the adrenaline coming back
- Walking into your first class of the season
- When your teacher walks by you at the barre and simply nods in approval
- When your teacher makes you demonstrate something for the class
- Putting on a pair of new tights
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