COMMUNITY: WE ARE STILL HERE Lilah Wallach 11th Grade • University Chicago Laboratory Schools
Community is the dance studio’s throbbing heart, Vibrant music and shining light, Spinning legs, missed cues, Bursts of laughter, sighs and groans. Just one more runthrough– really, just one more– Our own hearts poured out into the space, over and over, Night after night, Year After Year. Community isn’t a bright, quiet, empty day, Walking by the bright, quiet, empty studio, Curtains fluttering in the window like lost hands, waving, And I can’t help but imagine My teacher standing there, Gazing out of that window And drawing the curtain, Waiting for her quarantined dancers to return, waiting For the studio To fill again.
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