learn to dance

ok, so my last entry was about body contact stuff and how awkward that is, which it is, still…

but last week we went over the tango, and if I thought I stepped on toes a lot with foxtrot, tango was a toe stepping failure! Nothing we did worked, at all! Towards the end everytime my foot touched hers I could feel her hand quiver with pain. I felt like a dog!

But this week we did tango again, an we spoke a bit before and looked at our posture, body position and the leg movement and the whole night I only stepped on her once. It was way more fun!

So it goes to show, a bit of talking can go a long way :)

We also have lots of fun doing the east coast swing, that’s a fun, but tiring dance!

Ok, So I’ve been taking ballroom dancing lessons for about 4 months now, and for the most part its been fun and exciting. My partner and I have become good friends. The other night we were learning the fox trot which is a fun dance, but our teacher said everyone had to go into body contact for the dance, which was awkward because we’re not a couple, but our instructor insists that its the way things are at the more advanced level. I kept stepping on her toes, my posture was all wrong. Eish, I need to fix up a lot of things before next week!

So we had a recap evening for the dances we’ve learned in the last 2 months. I realised I’ve learnt the basic of quite a few.

We went over: rumba, waltz, foxtrot, cha-cha. We then learned the swing, which was funny cause somehow I managed to trip a friend(by accident) and she went flying, glad she’s not hurt.

We’ve also learnt the mambo, tango and the boogie, but didn’t recap those last night!

All in all I’d say its been a gr8 experience so for. Still need to learn the sokkie with my partner :)

Good thing I actually use this site :) Yip I started to do ballroom dancing. I heard about lessons on monday evenings, but never had someone to dance with. Then a friend of mine heard that I wanted to and she offered to be my partner. Score :) So I get to learn to dance, I suspect it will be a while before I’m any good at it, guess I’ll need to practice with her during the week :)

I wanna learn to dance, because, well, I can’t. Dance that is, not learn. I’ve tried a 2 or 3 times with some friends, but they never really want to give the time it takes for me to learn properly, cause its always at a party and they wanna have fun, which I get, it is a party, but the sooner I learn the more fun they can have with me too. I wanna learn ball room dancing and latin american dance. Those would be gr8! Hip-hop is another, but that’s more of a “if I could do that, that would be cool!”