When did you start dancing and why did you keep dancing? My mom signed me up for Modern Dance classes when I was 11 years old and informed me after the fact. At first I was really nervous and I didn't want to go. She told me to just go and try it first, before I made a decision. For a while I felt like I was a horrible dancer, that everyone knew what they were doing except me. But I became attached as soon as we started working on the dance for the recital. All the exercises we did during class began to make more sense as we used the technique we learned to form graceful movements to a beautiful song (it was the theme song from the movie 'The Mission'). I realized then that my mom signed me up for dance classes because I am a dancer. I always have been and I always will be.