Boogie Shoes!

I found this dance on YouTube of dancers from So You Think You Can Dance doing a jazz number to Boogie Shoes. Now I must have watched this dance twenty times already and I think it is one of the cutest, most fun, dances I have ever watched and I am super jealous of them! A big part of this dance that kept catching my attention was the glittery Converse shoes that they were wearing. Their dance was all about boogie shoes and the focus point was the sparkling shoes just as much as it was the dancing itself. 

Mrs. Augustine, my coach Rosalie, and I have all been working around the idea of somehow finding a way to mark my ankle while I am doing this dance. We have come up with the idea of tying a black ribbon around my ankle while I am dancing. Doing this would help show just where the injury is. I showed Mrs. Augustine a video of how my dance is coming along and in the video I was wearing my black ankle brace. She said it was a really interesting affect because you could see how I was avoiding the use of my one ankle and how it became noticeable the more and more I used it as the dance progressed. The whole purpose of this dance is to tell my story and I think that adding the ribbon will help me do this is a simple yet powerful way. Watching this video definitely made me realize that someone as simple as a ribbon or a pair of shoes can completely alter and enhance the message and meaning of a dance! 

Check out the video of this dance... it really is awesome!

Boogie Shoes