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I'm tired, but being me, I have to write regularly, which means even when bedtime is later than it should be for a 9am class tomorrow.
Ballroom dance class moves at the pace of a snail. At this rate, it will be relieving to be leading for swing (in class), if only because it will be an all new and different (except all too familiar) sort of frustration rather than sheer boredom with the combination of the only 2 things we can do in Rumba for 20 minutes straight. If we were doing more form and technique stuff it would be worth it, but we're not. And it's the "this cue means this lead" style of teaching lead/follow, which isn't the way I'm used to it: I expect a lead to put me where they want me. I can do this, in this setting it's easy, but the first time one of these guys is hit with a follow who doesn't know the exact same repetoire of dance-bits that tehy know, they'll be lost. Maybe the other stuff evolves from here?
Swing troupe was interesting- they were prepping a performance for this Tuesday, and I bowed out as we were sorely gender-imbalanced, and I have 2 midterms on Wednesday, and maybe I'll actually study in some serious way. So I helped with some ideas, and did a bit of practice and had some fun. We did work up some nice shtick: we've got one threesome dance set for part of one song, and a really cute transition in another where the guy transitions from dancing with one girl to dancing with another one: if not exactly with much to do with it himself. Probably oughtn't give that away before the show though. The idea works: we'll see how it works in practice. But well, this is getting slightly closer to what I see as performance-dance: some show and excitement that isn't just the same stuff as one does recreationally but-with-bigger-smiles. And my probably over-large scarf collection is actually coming in useful. I am vindicated.
Ballroom dance class moves at the pace of a snail. At this rate, it will be relieving to be leading for swing (in class), if only because it will be an all new and different (except all too familiar) sort of frustration rather than sheer boredom with the combination of the only 2 things we can do in Rumba for 20 minutes straight. If we were doing more form and technique stuff it would be worth it, but we're not. And it's the "this cue means this lead" style of teaching lead/follow, which isn't the way I'm used to it: I expect a lead to put me where they want me. I can do this, in this setting it's easy, but the first time one of these guys is hit with a follow who doesn't know the exact same repetoire of dance-bits that tehy know, they'll be lost. Maybe the other stuff evolves from here?
Swing troupe was interesting- they were prepping a performance for this Tuesday, and I bowed out as we were sorely gender-imbalanced, and I have 2 midterms on Wednesday, and maybe I'll actually study in some serious way. So I helped with some ideas, and did a bit of practice and had some fun. We did work up some nice shtick: we've got one threesome dance set for part of one song, and a really cute transition in another where the guy transitions from dancing with one girl to dancing with another one: if not exactly with much to do with it himself. Probably oughtn't give that away before the show though. The idea works: we'll see how it works in practice. But well, this is getting slightly closer to what I see as performance-dance: some show and excitement that isn't just the same stuff as one does recreationally but-with-bigger-smiles. And my probably over-large scarf collection is actually coming in useful. I am vindicated.