Last Class Before Summer
This one was a lot of fun, and I felt loose and relaxed, and involved. It was kind of neat.
We ran through the Honi Coles Stroll really quick, and left it. It's something that will come up in Tap 1, and it'll be nice to have at least seen it. Lots of warm up stuff that was a little different, but I think Tanis is always trying to throw something different into that part. Warmups could probably get a little tedious otherwise.
We ran through a routine that we got into right off the bat, in the first lesson of the spring session. I described it pretty good there, up to a point - we did do all that,but after we did Suzy-Qs, which are a weird rotation on the heel. Back and forth doing that, four times, then launching right into the very first moves again, but this time at a 45 degree angle to our original direction. Then we do drawbacks, back to our original starting point, a little toe rotation kind of thing, a quick marengo (I think that's what it's called, and I'm guessing at the spelling, too) and a rather dramatic stomp to end.
And we were hot! After a couple of times through, we were totally together, and were keeping our line together, even when we changed direction. What a sound!
Now, the reason we practiced this so much, was that, since it was the last class of the session, we got to perform it for the other two classes that ran at the same time. But they started. First was the Beginner African Dance group. Very cool, with very physical and loose movement. Even cooler, was they had live musicians. Six drummers, doing amazing stuff.
Then the Jazz Dance 3 group. These people have been doing this for awhile, and it looked pretty amazing, too. Our stand-in teacher from last week, Shannon, was one of the students. Pretty impressive, and a huge group. I think there were 20 people there.
Then we got to do our stuff. We did the routine outlined above, and then the Shimmy. Total fun, and I felt relaxed and loose, and just ready to let it happen. I didn't even get out of sync, although at one point, I had to kind of vamp until I could figure out what we were supposed to be doing. So not perfect, but way, way too cool.
I'm going to take the summer off from this, but I think I will definitely be going in the fall, and this time I think it will be Tap 1.
We ran through the Honi Coles Stroll really quick, and left it. It's something that will come up in Tap 1, and it'll be nice to have at least seen it. Lots of warm up stuff that was a little different, but I think Tanis is always trying to throw something different into that part. Warmups could probably get a little tedious otherwise.
We ran through a routine that we got into right off the bat, in the first lesson of the spring session. I described it pretty good there, up to a point - we did do all that,but after we did Suzy-Qs, which are a weird rotation on the heel. Back and forth doing that, four times, then launching right into the very first moves again, but this time at a 45 degree angle to our original direction. Then we do drawbacks, back to our original starting point, a little toe rotation kind of thing, a quick marengo (I think that's what it's called, and I'm guessing at the spelling, too) and a rather dramatic stomp to end.
And we were hot! After a couple of times through, we were totally together, and were keeping our line together, even when we changed direction. What a sound!
Now, the reason we practiced this so much, was that, since it was the last class of the session, we got to perform it for the other two classes that ran at the same time. But they started. First was the Beginner African Dance group. Very cool, with very physical and loose movement. Even cooler, was they had live musicians. Six drummers, doing amazing stuff.
Then the Jazz Dance 3 group. These people have been doing this for awhile, and it looked pretty amazing, too. Our stand-in teacher from last week, Shannon, was one of the students. Pretty impressive, and a huge group. I think there were 20 people there.
Then we got to do our stuff. We did the routine outlined above, and then the Shimmy. Total fun, and I felt relaxed and loose, and just ready to let it happen. I didn't even get out of sync, although at one point, I had to kind of vamp until I could figure out what we were supposed to be doing. So not perfect, but way, way too cool.
I'm going to take the summer off from this, but I think I will definitely be going in the fall, and this time I think it will be Tap 1.
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