Well, tonight was my back to back classes at City Dance. First I do popping with Lawrence and the Advanced Hip Hop with Joseph.
I was so pumped for tonights classes and they both fulfilled my expectations cos they were AWESOME!
My body was pretty tired as I have increased my training to 2-3 hours a day now. I did a class with Joseph on Wed night and then Thursday morning I had a hour by myself practicing in the City Dance Studios and then did Body Jam at lunchtime at Les Mills which is the most intense cardio workout on the planet with Gandalf.
On Thursday morning I did some more work on a piece of choreography I am working on. I must say, I did not have any idea how much I would love doing choreography. While I am just beginning, and still getting myself proficient at dancing myself, there is a creative spirit in me that gets unleashed when I create my own moves and dance sequences to the music. Its so much fun and so satisfying creating dance to music and lyrics. I feel like a writer when they are trying to write a book, sometimes it just flows out and it's so sweet and enjoyable, and then its like I get writers block and I spend 5min just thinking through which move to do with a particular lyric so that it looks cool and still is depicting what the rapper/singer is saying. And then suddenly it hits me and it's like 'Oh Yeah, thats perfect' and its like you have these breakthroughs in your thinking all the time when that happens and you move it to the next level of working on the piece of dance. Its hard to explain and still very new to me. Its takes a lot of intellectual effort to create movements that flow together, that are somewhat in line with and depicting what the lyrics say, and to have it look sharp, cool and funky. I love it! More to come.
Anyways, tonights classes were awesome. I seemed to hit another level in being able to pick up the choreography tonight. I think its due to the personal practice I have been doing this week and jamming and watching stuff on Youtube on my lunch and dinner breaks.
It was my second class of popping ever, but I really picked up the whole lesson and piece of choreography, and was even able to start to add my self expression to it. Lawrence is a great teacher and involves us in the learning and makes sure he slows it down so we can get it. I love popping and the mechanical movements, and isolating the different parts of the body. It looks and feels so cool.
Hip Hop tonight was the best class I have ever done. The song that Joseph had picked and created the choreography to was sooooooo funky, and I have to say I totally nailed it. More than any other class. I really felt sharp and precise doing the piece tonight, when normally I feel a little clunky and don't weave all the moves together. But tonight I was focussed, and really present. It was like there was nothing else in the world I was thinking about. I was just there, watching, learning and performing the movements, and they seemed to come so easily. It was a real leap forward tonight in my confidence and my own experience of really progressing in my dancing.
Practice, practice and more practice is the source of it!!
I will leave you with this YouTube Clip for some inspiration. Its one of my favourites by Michael Jackson and for sure an inspiration for me to wanna dance and get really really good! Enjoy and have a great weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXK5xOJaYHI
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