You Don't Need a Dance Body. You Need a Tuesday Night.

Before class starts, I often ask my dancers a simple question: What’s your vibe tonight? On a scale of 1 to 10?

You'd be amazed at the answers. 3. 4. Sometimes a 2 — a rough day at work, kids who didn't sleep, a body that feels tired and heavy and not particularly interested in being looked at or moved.

Here's what I can tell you after asking that question more times than I can count:

I have never had a single dancer leave class anything less than an 8.

Not once.

That's just what happens when you move your body to music you love, surrounded by people who are rooting for you, in a space where nobody is judging you and everybody is just trying to feel good.

We live in a fitness culture that has made movement about punishment and results. Burn this many calories. Shrink this. Tighten that. Earn your body back. Hustle & Flow is not that. We are not interested in what your body looks like. We are interested in what your body can feel and what it can do when you stop criticizing it for five seconds and just let it move.

Dance is one of the only forms of movement where joy is literally the whole point. You're not grinding through reps hoping for a result six weeks from now. You are feeling it right now — in the music, in the choreography, in the moment when something clicks and your body does the thing and you think, oh. I did it!

We have moms who walk in after the longest days of their lives and leave feeling like themselves again. We have people in their 20s and 30s who had convinced themselves that this kind of thing wasn't for them anymore and who are now performing on stage.

You don't need a dance body. You don't need to be a certain size or shape or age or fitness level to start. You just need a Tuesday night. (Or a Wednesday. Or a Thursday …we've got options.)

Come in as a 2. Leave as an 8. We'll see you in the studio!