“Dance is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts..."

Some friends of ours have asked us, several years in a row now, to join them in watching their daughter dance at a local annual dance competition. North Carolina State University has hosted this event. She is just addicted to ballroom dancing, and does very well. We thoroughly enjoyed it, and I practiced sketching some of them from this event. It was great fun, because these folks really have such a love of dance, and it was mesmerizing to see them go from early in the day ‘til evening with hardly a break.
During one break, a little girl who was a spectator in the audience approached one of the young male dancers and asked him to teach her to dance, which he readily did. It was endearing to watch how sweet he was with her and how excited she was to learn.

They danced for the sheer joy of it and their passion just oozed…

“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” (-Mata Hari)