I stumbled across this video the other day and really thought it was worth a look. There's this adorable little girl named Heaven, she's two-years-old, and she rocks some choreography to a Beyoncé song.
I watched this interview of hers with Ellen DeGeneres (currently at 6,396,870 views, and several of those are mine) before I saw the initial video of Heaven dancing that started it all, and, to be honest, I didn't really get what was so amazing about it. Yes, she's cute and adorable, but I didn't see what the huge fuss was about. I mean, I just didn't get why Ellen had invited her. But one of the questions that Ellen asks her is very interesting regardless. Ellen asks, "Do you think you want to be a dancer when you grow up?" Okay, that's a reasonable question: Heaven's a little girl and was just dancing around for fun. That doesn't mean she's a dancer, right? She still has to grow into the title of "dancer," right?
Wrong. And wrong again.
Heaven replies, "I am a dancer!"
Well, yes. She is a dancer. Anyone who moves and breathes and connects with the music is a dancer. So often "dancers" are unattainable people: just think Beyoncé, Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Even my idea of a "dancer" is pretty limited because I've been classically trained in ballet; I couldn't name a jazz or modern "dancer" to save my life. These are dancers, absolutely, but not because they're famous or technically perfect or innovative. First and foremost, they are dancers because they feel the music, care about what they do, and take pleasure from the act of dancing. I'm a dancer because, despite the fact that I'm not "perfect" in everything I do, I love dance and forget about everything else when I'm dancing. Heaven's a dancer because she clearly feels the music and can move to it, and she does so pretty well for only being two.
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