I love Patrick Swayze and still swoon over him every time I watch Ghost, Dirty Dancing or carry a watermelon. He battled hard with his Cancer and will forever live in my memory.
I loved him most when he danced.
I was never lucky enough to meet him, despite day dreaming about it the last twenty years. As a young dancer I was fortunate to have Patsy Swayze, his mother and renowned choreographer judge me at a dance competition.
It was Rhythm Dance competition, Humanities Theatre, Waterloo, circa 1993. My first year doing a solo. The adjudicators sat in lit tables behind the first few rows of seats. They recorded comments on tape while you performed on stage.
After, they listened to the tapes and calculated the scores of each category. As dancers, we got to keep the tapes. I have a stack of them packed away from years of competitions.
I was nervous and excited from what I remember. She spoke about me on the podium after and I don’t even remember what place I came in.
The thing that stuck with me all these years is what she said about me on the tape “It’s too bad we don’t have lighting from the audience to show this child’s facial expression because she truly does deserve”.
Patsy, you raised a great son. You both made a big impact on me.
Rest in peace Patrick. I’ll never put you in a corner xo
