From the age of 2 to 18, I had tap dancing lessons….despite the fact that I weighed nearly 300 lbs during my teenage years…...I could shuffle ball change with the best of em!
My mom signed me up because I was born with a tumor on my right eye that led to me having the eye removed. The doctors told her that dance classes would help me improve my coordination (not quite sure how, but I digress…)
The last part of my “career” in dance (lol), I took private lessons with “Miss Patty”—a former Rockette that chain smoked and swore like a sailor. Sigh I miss those days! Last I heard, she got her Cosmetology certificate and was doing bouffants in the next town over….Tap dancing, it seems, has gone the way of the dodo!
Now I want to try again! I would love to start a Gay and Lesbian Tap Troupe here in Montreal! Any takers?
