The Sulphur Dance Center is a building that is very special to me. I spent a few hours a day, 4 days a week there for about 15 years. This building is where I met some of my lifelong friends. I am from the very small town of Sulphur, Oklahoma and there is not much to do there. Most of my free time during the week was spent at the Dance Center and I soon began to feel like my classmates and instructors were my second family. I still stay in touch with many of them and occasionally show up at the dance center and surprise my old teachers.

The building itself used to be a church, just like almost every other old building in Sulphur. I’m not sure when it was built but it must have been a very long time ago. It originally had wood floors and a large portion of the building is sort of a basement. The floors were creaky but it was such a welcoming place. My dance teacher who owned the building actually lived downstairs with her husband until she decided to move somewhere else. The building had a certain old smell to it that I can still smell today and brings back so many wonderful memories.