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The Naked Truth About Dancing

Laura Blu Sandía
7 min readOct 6, 2019

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“A subtle movement of grace — bringing you closer to god.”

I truly love dancing. It’s a beautiful art form, you shape your body, express your innermost self and connect with others that share the same passion. Dancing is another form of self-discovery. When you dance, you show others a part of yourself — without fear, without self-doubts. At least that is the ideal. Because reality looks a little bit different, not everything in the dance world is made out of gold. Dancing is also competition, judgement, superficiality and a lot of ego.

I used to totally emerge in the dance world. I was taking classes in a dance studio almost all the days of the week, I travelled to dance workshops & events, was part of a professional dance company & performed at different events, I spent almost all my free time with my crew, jamming. And I felt great. Truth is you feel awesome, once you are inside. But beware, my friend, if you are outside of this world, and you come to take a peak, you might feel anything but awesome. And this is where I learnt what dancing also means …

When the Ego Comes to Dance

DANCE IS Competition.

I stopped practising dancing for a while, but last week I decided to take a class, for the sake of old times. And God…

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Laura Blu Sandía
Laura Blu Sandía

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