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DANCE
The
missing twenty years in my writing life didn’t just disappear. I danced my way through them. I
met my former husband and partner Johann Murray in 1985 in a women's karate
school, which he attended under extenuating circumstances. He was already an accomplished dancer and taught me all he knew. From 1986 through 1991, we owned a ballroom dance studio in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
We
competed professionally from 1991 until 2002 in the American Rhythm category
which consists of Cha-Cha, Rumba, Swing, Bolero and Mambo. Today I am proud that I danced my last professional competition at age
50, with the other dancers typically in their 20s and 30s. Although dance has always been a dream of mine, I didn’t start any
formal training until my mid-thirties—in my 20s, when other folks were
practicing, I merely wrote copious poetry about dance instead—it didn’t occur
to me yet to put any of that poetry into practice.
I have taught ballroom and social dance courses at the Aurora Community College, Metro State College in Denver Colorado, and at The University of Northern Colorado. I also taught Argentine Tango for Colorado Free University (www.freeu.com). Beginning in 2006 I frequently danced to Pokémon music with my latest partner, and it looked something like this:
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