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We\u2019ve driven over 4,200 miles and done 11 shows over two and a half weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a wonderful tour! It\u2019s so amazing to hear the audience laugh and to hold their breath as we sing a moving song.<\/span><\/p>\n We have been the inaugural concert of the new after-Covid season for these Community Concert Associations. People are so excited, though still cautious, about coming out and feeling the music. <\/span><\/p>\n They are appreciative and they comment on how perfect our show is as the opener – with all the humor, beautiful uplifting moments, personable, and relatable. Everyone feels they are a part of it as we perform songs that trigger memories in everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n Last night, as I was setting up the CDs for sale, a high school kid stopped by. He said he would have loved to come to the show, but he was in a show himself and had to rehearse at the same time. He looked at our poster and said, \u2018I love comedy. It\u2019s the best!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n I agreed with him and looked at the poster he was referring to. I guess to a kid, we do look a bit comical LOL. Or, he really had a great sense of humor…<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.5em” custom_padding=”|3px||7px||”]<\/p>\n We\u2019ve driven over 4,200 miles and done 11 shows over two and a half weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a wonderful tour! It\u2019s so amazing to hear the audience laugh and to hold their breath as we sing a moving song.<\/span><\/p>\n We have been the inaugural concert of the new after-Covid season for these Community Concert Associations. People are so excited, though still cautious, about coming out and feeling the music. <\/span><\/p>\n They are appreciative and they comment on how perfect our show is as the opener – with all the humor, beautiful uplifting moments, personable, and relatable. Everyone feels they are a part of it as we perform songs that trigger memories in everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n Last night, as I was setting up the CDs for sale, a high school kid stopped by. He said he would have loved to come to the show, but he was in a show himself and had to rehearse at the same time. He looked at our poster and said, \u2018I love comedy. It\u2019s the best!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n I agreed with him and looked at the poster he was referring to. I guess to a kid, we do look a bit comical LOL. Or, he really had a great sense of humor…<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed.jpg” title_text=”unnamed” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” hover_enabled=”0″ module_alignment=”center” max_width=”100%” max_height=”1000px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.5em” custom_padding=”|122px||123px||” hover_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n In any case, I really appreciated this kid who was so excited about his rehearsal. Again, the arts are a powerful tool of expression and communication (especially for young people).<\/span><\/p>\n I wanted to write to you about something else today, though: <\/span> So, sometime during those 18 months of staying at home and not touring, I found my old tap shoes. They are the same ones I bought when I came to America to study musical theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n Holding them in my hands, I recalled how excited I was when I learned the basics, and then the simple combinations. I could feel the exhilarating joy of that one show, some 25 years ago, when I danced in the chorus line with a dozen other dancers.<\/span><\/p>\n I sat down on the floor of my closet to buckle them onto my feet, remembering how much I loved watching Shirley Temple, or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, when I was a little girl growing up in Croatia. We didn\u2019t have tap dancing classes in Croatia, so there was no way to learn it until I came to New York in 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n I spent endless hours in dance studios on Broadway, practicing and daydreaming of someday being good enough to dance.<\/span><\/p>\n But there was never an opportunity. I really wasn\u2019t good enough to be cast as a tap dancer. I had other strengths as a performer that took me on a different path.<\/span><\/p>\n But a little bit of that dream never left my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n I walked out of the closet and tapped on the tiles of the bathroom floor. The little clicks made me smile\u2026 and made me tear up a little bit. I scratched the tiles!<\/span><\/p>\n I would never be able to tap dance again, I thought. I just don\u2019t have a place for it.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.5em”]<\/p>\n In any case, I really appreciated this kid who was so excited about his rehearsal. Again, the arts are a powerful tool of expression and communication (especially for young people).<\/span><\/p>\n I wanted to write to you about something else today, though: <\/span> So, sometime during those 18 months of staying at home and not touring, I found my old tap shoes. They are the same ones I bought when I came to America to study musical theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n Holding them in my hands, I recalled how excited I was when I learned the basics, and then the simple combinations. I could feel the exhilarating joy of that one show, some 25 years ago, when I danced in the chorus line with a dozen other dancers.<\/span><\/p>\n I sat down on the floor of my closet to buckle them onto my feet, remembering how much I loved watching Shirley Temple, or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, when I was a little girl growing up in Croatia. We didn\u2019t have tap dancing classes in Croatia, so there was no way to learn it until I came to New York in 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n I spent endless hours in dance studios on Broadway, practicing and daydreaming of someday being good enough to dance.<\/span><\/p>\n But there was never an opportunity. I really wasn\u2019t good enough to be cast as a tap dancer. I had other strengths as a performer that took me on a different path.<\/span><\/p>\n But a little bit of that dream never left my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n I walked out of the closet and tapped on the tiles of the bathroom floor. The little clicks made me smile\u2026 and made me tear up a little bit. I scratched the tiles!<\/span><\/p>\n I would never be able to tap dance again, I thought. I just don\u2019t have a place for it.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FINAL_Blog-Banner-TC.com-14.png” title_text=”Don’t give up” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” module_alignment=”center” hover_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.5em” custom_padding=”|122px||123px||”]<\/p>\n But the sadness that this thought brought up\u00a0let me know that I wasn\u2019t ready to give it up just yet.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Instead of waiting for the opportunity to come to me…<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of\u00a0waiting for some time when I’d be able to practice again, get really good, and THEN dance…<\/span><\/p>\n I decided that\u00a0I was going to\u00a0just make it happen<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I decided right then, standing in my tap shoes in my bathroom, that the next show I do, I’d do a little routine!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So, for the past 11 concerts, I come out each night and I dance.<\/span><\/p>\n The sweet sounds I make with small metal plates attached to the soles of my shoes aren\u2019t perfect\u00a0or really that impressive. But my heart makes up for it. It fills up the room with that awesome energy of a fulfilled dream – one that was almost abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n And as I finish, I ask the audience:\u00a0“What is something you\u2019ve been wanting to do, but keep putting off because you’re afraid that it\u2019s not going to be perfect, or exactly like you dreamed it up?”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I invite them to pull the pieces of their dream out of the storage boxes – or compartments in their hearts – and live them out.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if it\u2019s just a tiny piece of the dream. You never know how much it will bless you\u00a0and how someone else will witness your joy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What is your version of \u2018tap shoes\u2019?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.5em”]<\/p>\n But the sadness that this thought brought up\u00a0let me know that I wasn\u2019t ready to give it up just yet.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Instead of waiting for the opportunity to come to me…<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of\u00a0waiting for some time when I’d be able to practice again, get really good, and THEN dance…<\/span><\/p>\n I decided that\u00a0I was going to\u00a0just make it happen<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I decided right then, standing in my tap shoes in my bathroom, that the next show I do, I’d do a little routine!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So, for the past 11 concerts, I come out each night and I dance.<\/span><\/p>\n The sweet sounds I make with small metal plates attached to the soles of my shoes aren\u2019t perfect\u00a0or really that impressive. But my heart makes up for it. It fills up the room with that awesome energy of a fulfilled dream – one that was almost abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n And as I finish, I ask the audience:\u00a0“What is something you\u2019ve been wanting to do, but keep putting off because you’re afraid that it\u2019s not going to be perfect, or exactly like you dreamed it up?”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I invite them to pull the pieces of their dream out of the storage boxes – or compartments in their hearts – and live them out.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if it\u2019s just a tiny piece of the dream. You never know how much it will bless you\u00a0and how someone else will witness your joy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What is your version of \u2018tap shoes\u2019?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”46px” hover_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Videos from the tour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.5em” min_height=”61px” custom_padding=”|125px||123px||”]<\/p>\n >> My tap dance routine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n >> David playing to one of his fans<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n >> Brian entertaining\u00a0us during sound-check<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.5em” custom_padding=”||0px|||”]<\/p>\n >> My tap dance routine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Acting on a dream, or something that is on your \u2018bucket\u2019 list but can\u2019t seem to take priority.<\/span><\/p>\n
Acting on a dream, or something that is on your \u2018bucket\u2019 list but can\u2019t seem to take priority.<\/span><\/p>\n