sultry week 2

Monday, July 7 – Sunday, July 13
Week Two of the Sultry Session

“Level 6: Yeeeeeehaw, this week’s assignment is “Remember the Alamo.” No, not the car rental company, the actual Alamo! So hitch up your wagon and head on down home in a cowboy hat, chaps and denim, or frilly petticoats and lace. Texas-style music like Willie Nelson, ZZ Top, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Chamillionaire will inspire your inner wild stallion to buck and gallop or be caressed and tamed. You’ll also swoop up into the “Spinning Helicopter” or “Body Spiral into Helicopter.” Go ahead, be fearless!”

…..seriously? sheila, you’re killing me. do you know how much i hate country music? i really, truly, am stumped on this one.

more on the mermaid assignment…

i think i have gotten more clarity on what my real complaint is here…

i think some assignments are good for some people and not for others. our journeys are all so personal to us, and our growth is so individual, that for everyone to get the same assignment at the same time– well, clearly that is not effective for everyone across the board.

i think part of my frustration is that this journey, ultimately, is MINE. i know that teachers just want what is best for us. but sometimes you have to be able to do what you feel you need to, and a teacher should support you in that decision.

i am paying $30 an hour to have someone else tell me i have to tie my legs together? i know i am supposed to trust my teacher. but if i’m doing a makeup and the teacher has never met me before? never seen me dance?

i know that when i make up with lucy next week she will understand that i do not want to repeat it.

week 8

Level 5/6: Remember the movie Splash with Darryl Hannah as the luminescent mermaid looking for love? This week your assignment is, “Mermaid”! Soooo, your Instructors will actually wrap something around your legs to mimic a tail! Myths and tales (get it? tales? wink, wink) of Mermaids, Sirens, Water Fairies and Nymphs have been around since ancient times. Their renowned beauty and power over seafaring men is legendary. Their enchanting songs sent ships crashing into rocks and lured men overboard to their briny demise. Oh my tease! On the pole, you may work on one of these fabulous tricks: “Layout”, “No-Handed Descending Angel” or the “Jack-Knife”. Coolio.

sigh. mermaid tail? i will be unravelling that i think. or maybe exploring hip swivels. we will see. time to come up with some songs…

week 7: 6/3/08 song ideas continued

more songs. itunes is robbing me blind.

• epoca- gotan project
  
• what your soul sings- massive attack
  
• start again- sissy
  
• homme- brazilian girls
  
• just like a dream- natacha atlas
  
• drive- melissa ferrick
  
• don’t know what you got- cinderella
  
• sleep with me- angelfish

week 7: 6/3/08 music ideas

(doing a makeup in tina’s tuesday class instead of wednesday… a girl from the forum is in that class and maybe it will have a different vibe….)

this is technically a free dance week but tina told me to bring in a song that is emotional and a song that i think i would want to dance to, and pick one right before class. right now i’m feeling like the hard and deep and angsty isn’t working for me, so i’m just going emotive.

so here goes nothing on itunes. i’ve been looking at a lot of world, exotic, percussion, bass.

• running up that hill- placebo
• wasted- mazzy star
• desert- emilie simon
• amor porteno- gotan project
• your love- the butches

soulstice week 6: 5/28/08

songs to try for next week, the junior high school assignment:

• pearl jam- alive
  
• alice in chains- would
  
• sade- no ordinary love
  
• sophie hawkins- damn i wish i was your lover
  
• rem- everybody hurts
  
• janet- that’s the way love goes
  
• nirvana- heart shaped box
  
• ice cube- it was a good day
  
• pm dawn- i’d die without you
  
• ub40- can’t help falling in love
  
• prince- 7
  
• bjork- human behavior
  
• duran duran- come undone
  
• beastie boys- sabotage
  
• Deftones- no Ordinary Love