| so this was emailed to me and i HAD to share :) this guy went to OCU and wrote for our newspaper roughly 7 years ago! its called why you should date a dancer.... and it makes me happy! They are dancers. More exactly they are Rowanists. They partake in monthly
>ritual fasting and weekly Pilates penitence. They belong to the only cult
>that requires a two-minute audition. But they are fun to date.
>
>Three years ago, I wrote a well-received column for this paper on the top
>10 reasons to date a guy dancer. This was entirely self-serving, because,
>at the time, I was one. Needless to say I’ve changed, but I haven’t’
>forgotten my pledge to write a follow-up. In all honestly, female dancers
>probably don’t need as much advocacy as guy dancers, but with a female-male
>ration of 9-to-1 on campus, they probably wont begrudge the help.
>
>Men: To those of you used to “down home” girls, dancers are probably pretty
>intimidating. They’re skinny enough to slip through jail bars and have
>enough attitudes to hold off a drunk KA. They are quite simply, divas. What
>is this strange and new concept, you ask? Diva is that almost permanent air
>around dancers that says “my mind and body work in perfect unison. I am
>walking art. Who are you?”
>
>Gentlemen, this is why you want them. Yes, their legs can break you in
>half; yes, their dress style is best described as “neo-retro 60s funk
>something-or-other,” but they make you have a good time, whether you want
>to or not. Think of dancers not as skinny, but svelte, not as muscular, but
>firm. They’re not fashion victims; they’re fashion assassins. Get them to
>take their hair out of that omnipresent bun and they’re curious as kittens,
>hot as napalm and sublet as a shotgun blast. Plus, come weigh-ins, you’ll
>save a lot on eating out.
>
>Dancers are interesting. On stage they embody grace, but everywhere else
>they walk into table corners. In class they do demi-plies, but at clubs
>they full-on grind. They’re portraits of concentration at one kind of barre
>and the last ones sober in another. And if you play a good song they, well,
>they bob. While everyone takes off nice clothes and puts on sweats at the
>end of the day, dancers do the exact opposite. If you don’t pay attention
>to them, they tap. They can tell you exactly how many calories are in that
>Big Mac. And they’ll eat it anyway.
>
>They’re divas. Which means they dream, and they dream big. You have to
>understand that most people don’t dream the way a dancer does. There are
>three kinds of dreams in this world: the comfortable, the successful and
>the dancer. Comfortable dreams mean nice family, nice car, secure job.
>Successful dreams mean wealthy and well known. This could apply to the arts
>as well as lawyers – photographer, writers, actors and artists can all be
>rich in their lifetimes, even if that was never the goal.
>
>But, not the dancer. The most famous dancers are never rich. And they are
>never famous outside their field. No, a dancer might dream to see her name
>in lights, and mean it. She might want to be the object of thunderous
>ovations night after night, and mean it. But all she really dreams is to
>make someone else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer. And
>they want to do it over and over.
>
>And that is so, so beautiful.
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