Movin' Easy Dancewear

Thanks for eighteen years and running to all in the Sister Moses Project, Harriet Tubman’s life in story, song, and dance.  Powerful.  http://www.sistermoses.org

Thanks to Shoreline Christian Center in Austin for hosting.

Thank yous to So You Think You Can Dance.  You have changed our world, the way we see.  You have taught us to feel without words, given us a perspective on the ugly side, cried with us as we touch the raw and tender hurt within.

Thank you.  We would not have dared to touch this sport, this art which calls us to become our unique selves even as we watch.

Thank you even more for showing us what it means for a dancer to be a brilliant explorer of all the depths involved in personal and technical training.  Thank you for showing us the brightness and openness of these dancers as they launch day after day into an unknown challenge.

Thank you to Ballet Austin, Tapestry, Kathy Dunn Hambrick Dance Company, Blue Lapis Light , Sharir Bustamante, Deborah Hay Dance Company and all the companies that spend their total energy on perfecting their art and expressing the choreographer’s vision.

Thank you for developing the art form of dance to excellence in skill and passion.  When choirs of the Middle Age monasteries reached a purity of tone and harmony, they would say that an unknown third voice would appear that they identified as the Virgin Mary.

Thank you to our professional companies for reaching such a level of excellence that we can hear a third voice opening our hearts as audience revealing gasps of awe that flow through an entire audience and igniting the sheer delight that makes us want to applaud all the night through.

Thank you first to my beautiful wife for your love and support that nurtures Movin’ Easy moment by moment.

Thank you to all the dancers, husbands, wives, mom’s, dad’s, and grandparents who have recognized the power of a dancewear store to educate, delight, inspire, and equip you and yours to do your very best. Thank you for your support that has kept us alive and well.

Thank you especially and with enormous gratitude for all the Movin’ Easy Dancewear Specialists from our beginnings in October 1981.  Thank you for your dedication to making sure every dancer receives the attention and expertise they need so they can excell and express themselves.  Thank you for your diligence in developing your skills and knowledge of fitting and selecting dancewear.  Thank you for making sure all your knowledge is passed to other Specialists so our expertise grows and renews.

And another special thanks to the Movin’ Easy managers who have put their hearts and souls into building the Movin’ Easy environment with its vibrant Specialists and its easily available selection of product.  Thank you for the care you have put into researching the best products and for your immaculate attention to detail in ordering and tracking so that we can provide dancers with what they need, when they need it.  Again thank you for your dedication and during hard times for your sacrifices to keep Movin’ Easy afloat.

And yet another unending list of thank you’s to the teenagers who have courageously taken huge responsibilities at Movin’ Easy and made great personal contributions to our service and our growth.

And from me another round of appreciation for all Specialists bearing with my constant reevaluation and redesign of the Movin’ Easy direction and approach.  As you know, Movin’ Easy as a part of the dance community is built one step at a time by you, your ideas, your energy, and your courage.  Thank you.

THANK YOU TO THE DANCER

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Thank you dancer.

Thank you for your courage.

Thank you for taking your ground.

Thank you for moving the song that only you can.

No one else can take this step you take now, large or small, unseen or bodacious.

Thank you to the tiniest girl whirling delight into our adult lives.

Thank you bursting boy taking rhythm to the speed of light.

Thank you fragile woman trampling bitter, brittle fears to become a beam of light.

And man of men, you deserve the Knight of Honor for peeling back the creases of your mind to ride out like a race horse facing a powerful head wind.

And I must say a thank you to myself for staying on the dance floor, for exploring the “yes’s” and the “no’s” even when my body said, “We ain’t going there.”

And I say thank you to the life and breath of dance always bringing a new sparkle to our brains and a ripple of delight through our bodies.