Dance Helps me as an Actor!!!

Some years ago I discovered that dance helped me as an actor. After playing football in college and then getting into boxing I was like many guys I know - musclebound, stiff and not very flexible. 

Now I always loved to dance socially but never had any formal training and that social dance didn't really aid in my body being malleable. 

I was lucky enough for my friend Susanne to invite me to Maria Del Bagno's  Hot Jazz Dance Class (now DanceCreate). The class was awesome fun and the non-judgmental, non-competitive nature of Maria's class and her care made me a regular attender. 

For me I found that dance was another form, another way for me to express myself, to communicate. Different than just dialogue. Without words or a script or some direction I was creating in the moment and expressing myself in a whole new way.

Not only have I found that I can be ANY character (take on who they are and how they think) I can also change by body (duplicate them physically as well).  I don't think, I just do! I AM them inside and out. 

Dance is a whole lot of fun and Maria and DanceCreate is a great place to study. ANY person at ANY level of dance can take with her - that's how she rolls.

So for a dance class in Los Angeles where fun, freedom and self-expression is a plenty - check out Maria Del Bagno and DanceCreate.

And just to add to that - for an acting class in Hollywood that has the simplest, sanest and most thorough way to train actors go to The Acting Center.

Dance people, DANCE!!!!