Chris Cueva!

Tell your life story in 3 sentences.
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"
-Alfred Tennyson

How did you get involved in dance?
My introduction to dance (non-party dancing) came a couple years ago when Katie and Caitlin invited me to try square dancing. Square dancing sounded a little too subdued for my tastes, so I resisted. Then Katie and Caitlin invited me over for dinner on Tuesday evening (which just happened to be the day of square dance rehearsal) and after I had eaten and was happily full (and thus more psychologically malleable), they convinced me to finish off the evening with some square dancing. Their bribes of food got me to my first rehearsal, but it was the wonderful people and aerial figures that made square dancing one of the highlights of my week.

What do you do besides dancing?
Some things that make me happy: theoretical physics-learning about the fundamental forces and how they interact, aerial martial art's kicks, nice people, adventures of all kinds, being outdoors, running/hiking/biking/skiing/berry picking/sledding in the mountains around Anchorage, eating, reading sci-fi and fantasy, looking at the color pictures in cooking books, dancing, backrubs, and doing things that I haven't done before.

What are your life goals?
To be happy, have a strong, healthy body that can do everything I want it to do, and have wonderful friends.

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
I'd be able to control my aging so that I could live a really long time (in good health) and see how it all turns out. I'd love to see what humans have discovered and how we've changed in a thousand years or so.