Today’s dance scene that I love comes from the 1957 musical Silk Stockings.

This is a special scene for me because it features one of my favorite dancers, the legendary Cyd Charisse.  Many years ago, before I discovered that I wanted to be a writer, I dreamed of growing up and being a beautiful and talented dancer like Cyd Charisse.

In Silk Stockings, Cyd Charisse plays a humorless Russian who, when she comes to Paris discovers that life doesn’t have to be drab and boring.  She discovers the joy of freedom and what better to express freedom than through dance?