There's a point where going back into the beginners class is EMBARASSING!!! Susan combined her advanced/intermediate-beginner classes to just one due to lack of enrolments. Don't get me wrong, she does a great job of catering to multi levels and all, but I hate feeling so conspicuous. When you have a mistep and the whole back third of the room has the same one... That's why I like to stand at the back.
She was doing shimmies and walking shimmies for the begining gals. I was in my customary back right corner and one of them actually turned around and said "wow you sure are jingly" so I did the glib *it's all about the jingles* and went back to my jingling. The same one that made the stripping comment.
I'm in the same place you are, where you aren't so much worried about having the exact same hip in the exact same spot as everyone in the class, but learning to actually move to the SONG. Susan's left handed, so her DUM isn't necesarrily where my dum is. My flourishes are different than hers too. I can channel *her* and be fairly right on until she notices I'm just shadowing her and she throws in lead changes to wake me up.
That fluidity and control thing seems to happen when you feel like you know the moves, and can dance them rather than just do them. Every so often I have a brief shining glimpse of it before it moves off into the elusive future. I don't want to dance like susan, I want to dance like ME. I love her to death and all but she's got a whole different style than I do. I want to dance to middle eastern music with the same ease as american nightclub music. Just feel it and go.
Last night she got all bent at me cause I asked her if she knew any debke stuff. Her response was "I guess I don't know everything anymore" Later I asked her about the sideways belly roll and she got a little twisted about that too. :( I was going to show it off for her, but after the comment she made, I opted not to.
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timeasmymeasure
Sooooooo true
Date: 2004-02-03 11:00 pm (UTC)There's a point where going back into the beginners class is EMBARASSING!!! Susan combined her advanced/intermediate-beginner classes to just one due to lack of enrolments. Don't get me wrong, she does a great job of catering to multi levels and all, but I hate feeling so conspicuous. When you have a mistep and the whole back third of the room has the same one... That's why I like to stand at the back.
She was doing shimmies and walking shimmies for the begining gals. I was in my customary back right corner and one of them actually turned around and said "wow you sure are jingly" so I did the glib *it's all about the jingles* and went back to my jingling. The same one that made the stripping comment.
I'm in the same place you are, where you aren't so much worried about having the exact same hip in the exact same spot as everyone in the class, but learning to actually move to the SONG. Susan's left handed, so her DUM isn't necesarrily where my dum is. My flourishes are different than hers too. I can channel *her* and be fairly right on until she notices I'm just shadowing her and she throws in lead changes to wake me up.
That fluidity and control thing seems to happen when you feel like you know the moves, and can dance them rather than just do them. Every so often I have a brief shining glimpse of it before it moves off into the elusive future. I don't want to dance like susan, I want to dance like ME. I love her to death and all but she's got a whole different style than I do. I want to dance to middle eastern music with the same ease as american nightclub music. Just feel it and go.
Last night she got all bent at me cause I asked her if she knew any debke stuff. Her response was "I guess I don't know everything anymore" Later I asked her about the sideways belly roll and she got a little twisted about that too. :( I was going to show it off for her, but after the comment she made, I opted not to.