after class 7/8/08

this was week 2 of sultry but another makeup for me. first official class is still not until friday.

soooo remember the alamo meant a lot of crappy country music. really i think that is the only genre of music that i intensely dislike. i remember near the end of class i was putting stuff in my bag and two girls sitting on the bench together said to each other: wow, i really heard a bunch of songs that i liked! yeah, country’s not so bad! i will have go home and look up more songs like this!

gag. gag! seriously? it’s like when i log into the forum sometimes and after an assignment that i hated, people are going, yeah it was such a good learning experience! well, yes, sometimes it is, and sometimes you learn that your EC HATED IT. mermaid was like that. this was like that. i didn’t even do the assignment for my dance, but doing backup dances to music that iddn’t move me at all was just painful. it felt like a waste of money. maybe i will just sign out of that class next week because honest to god i just cannot handle country music.

is that bratty? i dont really care. it may be being a “bad sport” but it just doesn’t work for me. i tried it.

anyway. i had beth for a teacher today. who is the other TT mentor for NYC, tina being one as well. beth is great– she has a lot of the same energy that tina does but her class seemed to all get along really well. it might honestly be studio B. it’s jsut smaller and more personal in there than it is in A. i will have to take another make up with her some other time to test my theory.

warmup was good. i had a little trouble easing in today. learned the snake dive- handstand- split off and it HURTS. will have to try again at home or using a different position… i basically squished the hell out of my pubic bone and had to abort. it doesn’t seem like a trick i will be doing in flow, but then again– i said the same thing about layout once upon a time. open mindedness is the goal. except with country music.

picked “let it rain” by keri noble. couldn’t quite connect to the emotion of the song, but i did find a home in the feeling of it. i think that i am able to make more of the movements mine. changing them to fit who my EC is now and what she wants to feel. not just a regular cat pounce, up and down– throw in a little bit of an angled push back up, like a rocking cat, with pants on that allow my knees to just glide into cat pounce hip circles into a side goddess. it feels delicious. and it feels like me.

beth said i was feline. which is funny, i’ve gotten that before– i am curious to see my dance. but, not that curious. i will not be taping any time soon but i think that the BF may be getting a dance soon… =) she also asked me if i had danced to that song before– i have no idea why? it’s funny i was listening to it again just now and i realized that i don’t recognize the second half of the song. i danced to it but i wasn’t hearing it.

at the end of class, we had a couple of all-swims. beth picked lucinda williams- “i just wanna make love to you” for my groups’ second dance. and it felt good. afterwards i asked beth if she remembered talking to me about TT questions with tina… and she did. she had been trying to place my face during class.

i asked her if she had any advice for me. she said she tought i would do really well, that i had a great dance and movement. she said that it was good that i wasn’t too far progressed into my EC… that my movements were still recognizable into the chunks we are taught in class. i’m guessing she meant that when you are teaching L1… you need to be able to “showcase” the moves. sometimes if you watch a girl who is IN IT… like a house girl who can REALLY dance… you can tell that she’s not using any S moves any more. it’s all like… her own. it was kind of a backhanded compliment. like, she said my movement is “clean” and beautiful but she was also basically saying that my EC hasn’t truly come out yet. more food for thought i suppose. i have no idea what i look like and i know i have a long way to go towards what i could be. so, i will take it constructively.