With 5 days left of the DansuToPantsu Generation 05 auditions - Captain of Team T, and the new potentials Jenni has shared her thoughts on what being a member of DtP means to her and many of us...
"We've been asked a lot since the auditions started, what does it take to be a DTP member? What is a DTP member? I've thought about it a lot and, I'd like to share this with you all.
A DTP member's main goal is to spread the joys of dancing. We love dancing, we know that it's fun, and we want others to know that too. We love being a part of the YouTube dance community, and watch others and encourage them. But we don't just post covers like the bulk of the dance community, we h...ave gatherings to give people a place to dance together. Our number one goal is to spread that joy.
We all have different reasons that we joined DTP, and we all enjoy dancing and gatherings for different reasons. But our goal for having them isn't to show off our dance moves, it's to have fun and get others to join.
We're not an idol group, and we don't aspire to be idols. We don't count our success as a member by the number of bracelets you get at a gathering, or the views you get on a video. We count our success by the number of people we made happy, or how many people we got to get up and dance. Most of all we count our success by how much fun we and those around us had. We leave our gatherings not talking about how good we were at a dance or what we got, but about how proud we were that certain people got up to dance, or how awesome others looked dancing. We talk about how sweet the people met there were, and how happy we were that we saw others there again.
Being in DTP is not about being the best or being the center of attention. We support others, other dancers and other dance groups. We are not critical of another's dancing. We don't watch for when others mess up it call out mistakes. Our focus is on how much fun they had and that they did it and expressed themselves.
We act as a voice to the dance community. We strive to be a positive light and a positive influence. We try to make an outlet to inspire others and to help through hard times. I think we can all agree that music invokes emotion. It can bring you joy and bring you comfort. Well, dancing is being a part of the music.
We are not perfect, we know hardship and we know pain. But we try to be strong for each other and for everyone, so that we can show others even if you're hurting, there's hope. For many of us, that's what dancing reminds us of. It picks up our spirits when we're down. It helps us celebrate when we're happy. And it helps us connect with each other.
Dancing can be incredibly inspiring to us because of this. Whether it just inspires to learn something new for a con, or is a motivator towards bigger dreams and goals.
Being a DTP member is having a true understanding of all of this, and feeling it from the bottom of your heart. And most of all, it's wanting to share these feelings with others. <3"
- Jenni, Captain of Team T
