A personal, first-person reflection (YouTube monologue) about entering an "age of irrelevance"—the speaker, a long-time partner salsa dancer, recounts noticing she is no longer being asked to dance and how that realization hit her emotionally. The piece explores feelings of invisibility tied to aging within social dance scenes and social contexts more broadly.
You want to know what One of the shitty yet totally awesome things about getting older is when you enter the age of irrelevance, when you start to notice that you're not being noticed, and it's a feeling of complete irrelevancy. So it happened for me, because I'm a partner dancer. I salsa dance a lot, and for many years, I never sat down. I would go out dancing, and I'd have a line of dudes just waiting to spin me around the dance floor. And about six years ago, I took notice that when I went outside to go dancing, I sat a lot. And I looked around the people that used to ask me to dance and noticed them. And the chicks with the short skirts and booties hanging out and, you know, the young, hot chicas. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Like, wow, is this my time?
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