First Spring Lesson
There are eight of us in the class, and three have never done tap, though one of them has done a lot of other types of dance. It was fun!
We did a bunch of different things. Teach Tanis is concentrating more on choreography and less on exercizes since it is only a five week session.
Again, I get through it all, had tons of fun with it, and now I can't remember a thing. We did work on something that does a lot of traveling.
Let's see....
Step, step, shuffle-ball-change x 4
Shuffle, shuffle, step x 2
Slow five part riff, gallop x 4
Fast riff x 2
By then we've covered the whole of the room (if I haven't left anything out), so we do this backing up move: big step back to the right at a 45 degree angle, brush, ball-change, step, brush, heel, toe (*whew*). Turn 90 degrees to the left and do the same thing going the other way. Then right again, and left again.
Jeez, maybe I remember more than I thought!
We did do some exercizes: traveling ones, where we'd go in pairs and travel across the room. Shuffles, phalaps, paddle & rolls. I can't for the life of me remember the paddle & roll, except that it's really neat, and I like doing it.
We also jumped right into the Shim-Sham-Shimmy. We started with the break, naturally, but then Tanis lead us through the fourth part. Once everyone could more or less get through that, she lead us through the third part. Then the second part.
The second part isn't followed by the regular break, like all the other parts. It has its own break, which uses a variation of the toe-heel step of the second part. Tanis calls it the sticky candy step, which I guess is because it looks like you're walking on sticky candy?
It was a great time, and over way too soon. I would have thought an hour and a half would have felt longer, but time flies when you're having fun.
I still have a problem with a loose screw on the left toe tap. I tried a drop of Crazy Glue, which held for all of 20 seconds, and really did nothing but fill in the slots on the screw head so a screw driver can't grab it to turn it. I may have to consult a professional
We did a bunch of different things. Teach Tanis is concentrating more on choreography and less on exercizes since it is only a five week session.
Again, I get through it all, had tons of fun with it, and now I can't remember a thing. We did work on something that does a lot of traveling.
Let's see....
Step, step, shuffle-ball-change x 4
Shuffle, shuffle, step x 2
Slow five part riff, gallop x 4
Fast riff x 2
By then we've covered the whole of the room (if I haven't left anything out), so we do this backing up move: big step back to the right at a 45 degree angle, brush, ball-change, step, brush, heel, toe (*whew*). Turn 90 degrees to the left and do the same thing going the other way. Then right again, and left again.
Jeez, maybe I remember more than I thought!
We did do some exercizes: traveling ones, where we'd go in pairs and travel across the room. Shuffles, phalaps, paddle & rolls. I can't for the life of me remember the paddle & roll, except that it's really neat, and I like doing it.
We also jumped right into the Shim-Sham-Shimmy. We started with the break, naturally, but then Tanis lead us through the fourth part. Once everyone could more or less get through that, she lead us through the third part. Then the second part.
The second part isn't followed by the regular break, like all the other parts. It has its own break, which uses a variation of the toe-heel step of the second part. Tanis calls it the sticky candy step, which I guess is because it looks like you're walking on sticky candy?
It was a great time, and over way too soon. I would have thought an hour and a half would have felt longer, but time flies when you're having fun.
I still have a problem with a loose screw on the left toe tap. I tried a drop of Crazy Glue, which held for all of 20 seconds, and really did nothing but fill in the slots on the screw head so a screw driver can't grab it to turn it. I may have to consult a professional
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