'To dance with grace is to move without burden or responsibility,” writes aimeephan. “It is to feel light and free from pain or fear or guilt'
“Are you serious?” I asked. I was living in Iowa at the time, in graduate school.
My mind was still trying to visualize his first statement: my parents dancing. Aside from the occasional family wedding reception, I’d never seen them dance, separately or together. Even then, they’d awkwardly sway in the cocooned safety of a crowd, and often ceded the dance floor to more graceful couples, like my aunt and uncle from Texas, who were regular weekend ballroom dancers.
Since arriving in America shortly before the end of the war in Vietnam, my parents had perfected their ability to linger in the margins of American suburban society. As part of the, they learned the necessary skills to survive and assimilate. They studied English, they softened their accents, they acquired graduate degrees and respectable jobs. They got a mortgage, paid their taxes, and put two children through school so they could earn their own graduate degrees. They became U.S. citizens.
a Vietnamese variety show of lavish music and dance numbers, and old movies on VHS. My father especially loved MGM musicals, which he’d watched as a teenager back in Vietnam. Our favorites were. We marveled at the choreography and spectacle. We agreed that while Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were superior technical dancers, Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron looked more romantic. They also had black hair, and if we squinted at the screen, we could imagine they were not so different from us.
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