Sunday, September 11, 2005
"bounce!" Carol told us. " you've got to groooove."
After a couple of months of being out of touch with hiphop, my brain seemed to have lost the sensory map of my arms and legs. And to make things worse, it juz wasn't in the mood to groove anyway.
BUt after about 1 hour, I actually found myself bouncing along to teh music. Ok, i was super duper rusty, and i think i looked a bit like crap. THe choreo was really simple, but it was quite interesting to go back to teh basics and perfect all the moves one by one.
So at the end of the one and half hour workshop, me , lz and Sammie stayed back to just to spy on the classes. I really enjoyed the workshop, and i liked Carol's clear style of teaching the moves and the way she intereacted with the class. ( yez yez, lz, i know marcus' choreo rocks to high heaven , but i really ta boleh tahan the "teaching" grinz)
NOw , just like every other world of specialities, dance has it's own little language, own little culture that you've to initiate yourself with.
Yez, you shouldn't turn up to class in a plain t shirt and beach shorts, like I do. Coz
1) you look like a complete idiot
2) since i was already dancign like a complete idiot, that made me look twice as bad
3) it juz shows off fat thighs to its greatest advantage.
Hip hop dance attire ( tho' not mandatorY) consists of tank tops, ( for the gals), baggy track pants / body hugging long pants, track shoes and a cap or kerchief to top it off. Add in sweat bands, bandanas, and you're ready to rooll
Jazz , which i want to go into , is a tight black T shirt and black tights.
And then there's the terminology.
body rolls, Wham bam ( don't ask me, i'm still tryign to figure it out), OMPH, round the world, hiphop walk, old school, new school, locking, poppping,
i've been dancing since year one in uni, and trust me, half the terms are still alien. mebbe coz i'm not as into it as my partner in crime, Ms lz, :) .
Dancers like to explore a lot of different styles of dance because they compliment each toher.
my dance instructor in melb had salsa back ground, which was well pronounced in her booty shaking moves that she made us do.
Lz says her hot fav :) marcus has some jazz background.
Sammie's sensual style at hiphop displays salsa and exotic dancing background.
Exotic dancing.. hmmm.
Yez, i mean lz and I do practise making love to the wall to get our body rolls right ( Aaaahhhh don't kill me gal, for revealing all) , but whoooo hoo exotic dancing??? ( xl very interested)
Sammie continued telling us about it.. the hooker's walk, the sensual moves.
( xl now very very interested)
but it's to keep men happy in the bed room right?
Wrong.
" my guy friend actually wanted to try it," Sammie told us.
Lz and I tried to conceive an image of a guy doing a sensual body roll and failed.
i could only concoct an image of a gal fleeing the room in complete terror.
"aiyoh, show what?" lz asked.
Yeah? show wat? got nothing to show in a body roll lah. mebbe the last move of the roll, but other than that, nothing to show k? they might wanna try with viagra first, mebbe that'll work better. ( urgh, i'll stop, incase under 18's are reading this)
Anyway, i don't know what possessed me to part with 100 bux. but i did. And i'm the proud owner of a dance card and ready to jump back into a long neglected part of my life --- dance.
only bad thing is i don't see exotic dancing classes on the class schedule.
After a couple of months of being out of touch with hiphop, my brain seemed to have lost the sensory map of my arms and legs. And to make things worse, it juz wasn't in the mood to groove anyway.
BUt after about 1 hour, I actually found myself bouncing along to teh music. Ok, i was super duper rusty, and i think i looked a bit like crap. THe choreo was really simple, but it was quite interesting to go back to teh basics and perfect all the moves one by one.
So at the end of the one and half hour workshop, me , lz and Sammie stayed back to just to spy on the classes. I really enjoyed the workshop, and i liked Carol's clear style of teaching the moves and the way she intereacted with the class. ( yez yez, lz, i know marcus' choreo rocks to high heaven , but i really ta boleh tahan the "teaching" grinz)
NOw , just like every other world of specialities, dance has it's own little language, own little culture that you've to initiate yourself with.
Yez, you shouldn't turn up to class in a plain t shirt and beach shorts, like I do. Coz
1) you look like a complete idiot
2) since i was already dancign like a complete idiot, that made me look twice as bad
3) it juz shows off fat thighs to its greatest advantage.
Hip hop dance attire ( tho' not mandatorY) consists of tank tops, ( for the gals), baggy track pants / body hugging long pants, track shoes and a cap or kerchief to top it off. Add in sweat bands, bandanas, and you're ready to rooll
Jazz , which i want to go into , is a tight black T shirt and black tights.
And then there's the terminology.
body rolls, Wham bam ( don't ask me, i'm still tryign to figure it out), OMPH, round the world, hiphop walk, old school, new school, locking, poppping,
i've been dancing since year one in uni, and trust me, half the terms are still alien. mebbe coz i'm not as into it as my partner in crime, Ms lz, :) .
Dancers like to explore a lot of different styles of dance because they compliment each toher.
my dance instructor in melb had salsa back ground, which was well pronounced in her booty shaking moves that she made us do.
Lz says her hot fav :) marcus has some jazz background.
Sammie's sensual style at hiphop displays salsa and exotic dancing background.
Exotic dancing.. hmmm.
Yez, i mean lz and I do practise making love to the wall to get our body rolls right ( Aaaahhhh don't kill me gal, for revealing all) , but whoooo hoo exotic dancing??? ( xl very interested)
Sammie continued telling us about it.. the hooker's walk, the sensual moves.
( xl now very very interested)
but it's to keep men happy in the bed room right?
Wrong.
" my guy friend actually wanted to try it," Sammie told us.
Lz and I tried to conceive an image of a guy doing a sensual body roll and failed.
i could only concoct an image of a gal fleeing the room in complete terror.
"aiyoh, show what?" lz asked.
Yeah? show wat? got nothing to show in a body roll lah. mebbe the last move of the roll, but other than that, nothing to show k? they might wanna try with viagra first, mebbe that'll work better. ( urgh, i'll stop, incase under 18's are reading this)
Anyway, i don't know what possessed me to part with 100 bux. but i did. And i'm the proud owner of a dance card and ready to jump back into a long neglected part of my life --- dance.
only bad thing is i don't see exotic dancing classes on the class schedule.
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