1. The extracurricular activity that I chose to discuss is after school dance. I started dance when I was 3, but only continued it for half a year. Then, in 9th grade, I attended the after school dance performance in May. From then, I have been dancing, and haven’t loved it more. It is pretty disappointing that I have not realized how much I enjoy dancing until now, even though I don’t regret stopping. The major WoK that takes part in dance, in my perspective, is emotion and perception. <br />The way that emotion is in dance, is because you have to dance with all the raw emotion you have inside of you. A dance that lacks this “raw emotion” is lifeless, boring and uninspiring. I feel that I learn better when I dance with all the emotion I have, rather than just doing the steps that my teacher tells me to do. When I’m out on stage, at the end of the year, after everything I learned, it’s really hard to just throw my head back and think about the steps. When I dance, I don’t think about what I’m necessarily doing, more like, I just dance what I feel at the time. I believe that I have really learned a lot in the past few years by being committed, mindfully and emotionally. Something about dance makes me feel more emotional to the things around me, and I think that is because of the emotional aspect that dance has affected me by. Dance is so meaningful to me because I really get to express myself, and I think that is the most important thing.<br />However, the way that perception is in dance is because everyone perceives a dance differently, just like a work of art. Even though there is a basic theme for each dance, whether someone perceives it that way is what makes it a good dance. I feel that the way I have learned through perception during dance is when I go and watch professional dances, such as the time when I went to the New York City Ballet. Watching Midsummer’s Night Dream was really inspirational, but at the same time confusing because I didn’t really know the story, so it was hard to understand what was happening. But, what made that a really good performance to watch was how I perceived their emotions through their facial expressions and body movements, like fluidity. <br />To me, dance is a really important factor in my life to help me express what, not only what I like to do, but what I want to feel, and what I want other people to feel. It’s hard to say that I’m completely in love with dance because of the fact that I’ve only been doing it for 3 complete years. Besides that, dance has given me a second way to express my emotions without the use of language, just like my passion for photography. <br />