Line Dance Connection:	What's your name? Do you have any dance nicknames that you're known by?
Cessily Greene:	My name is Cessily Yvonne Greene. I don’t have a dance nickname, but my childhood friends call me “Bingo” (No jokes or singing, please!).
Line Dance Connection:	Where are you from and what city do you call home?
Cessily Greene:	I was born and raised in Washington, DC. I reside in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, but DC is my home.
Line Dance Connection:	What do you do in your professional life? Any hobbies outside of dance?
Cessily Greene:	I am a Program Manager for a major defense contractor, but my background is in Electrical Engineering. Outside of my career and dancing, I enjoy reading and volunteering with the Girl Scouts.
Line Dance Connection:	So what do they call this dance craze in your home town? Line Dancing, Hustling, Sliding, Other?
Cessily Greene:	Line Dancing.
Line Dance Connection:	Are you affiliated with any group or groups?
Cessily Greene:	I am not affiliated with a group; however, I enjoy dancing with the DMV, East Coast, Universal line dance group…and all groups in between. In other words, I enjoy dancing with everyone.
Line Dance Connection:	How long have you been dancing?
Cessily Greene:	I have been line dancing for close to 4 years.
Line Dance Connection:	How did you get involved in dancing?
Cessily Greene:	I got involved in line dancing by attending a Luv2Dance line dance class with a few friends, for exercise. I enjoyed the dances and music so much that I continued taking classes, without my friends.
Line Dance Connection:	After you attended your very first class, how did you feel?
Cessily Greene:	After my first class I was excited, energized…and tired!
Line Dance Connection:	How did you get into choreography?
Cessily Greene:	After a year of learning line dances, I began to imagine dances to every song I liked. One morning while driving to work, I was listening to one of my favorite songs by Janet Jackson and started moving my feet, making steps, while driving. (Please don’t try that at home!) From that day I continued making dances to songs that moved me.
Line Dance Connection:	How many dances have you created and what was the very first dance you created?
Cessily Greene:	I have created over 20 line dances, with “Island Life” being the first.
Line Dance Connection:	Of all your dances which one would you say is your favorite?
Cessily Greene:	I love all my dances because they represent my feelings in a given moment…good and bad feelings. But, if I had to choose my favorite dance, it would be “Island Life” because it was my first dance.
Line Dance Connection:	In your own words, what makes dancing special?
Cessily Greene:	Dancing is special because you have a moment (or moments) to lose yourself, within yourself. It’s exercise and stress relief all in one.
Line Dance Connection:	If you could change one thing about dancing, what would it be?
Cessily Greene:	The one thing I would change about dancing is I would decrease the number of nationally advertised events, simply because I can’t afford to attend all of them. That sounds selfish…I know!
Line Dance Connection:	Tell me one thing about yourself that the dance community would find surprising.
Cessily Greene:	Actually, there are two surprising things about me: · I am shy. (Don’t Laugh!) I am quiet and reserved around people I don’t know and I’m extremely nervous in front of a crowd. Before teaching a class or workshop, it takes me a while to break the nervous barrier. I guess that’s why I am normally in “my” back corner of the floor, dancing with myself. If I talk or “cut up” around someone, that means I’m comfortable with them. · It’s difficult for me to learn dances from videos.