take dance classes

I was a very committed dancer up until I graduated from High School, in fact I wanted to be a professional choreographer. My last year in HS we moved to a new town and I couldn’t find a dance class that I liked so I kind of took the year off. Then I went to a small college and their dance program was a joke. It has now been 12 years and I am starting to think it will never happen.
At this point I will do anything, ballet, modern, salsa, just to be on the floor again moving to the music. Its time for me to bust out those dancing shoes.

Being new to the area I dont have any idea where are all the dance studio. Today I will be checking out online and then visit them, hopefully this weekend. I hope they are not too expensive and they are actually good.

I would like to an array of classes… ballet, modern, hip-hop and latin.

I love expressing myself through movement. Just like I do through music. I wish I could through painting and sculpture…. that’s a long term goal I’m not ready to put down here yet. But dance classes within a year’s time I think is really a reasonable goal!

I finally found my hobby. I stopped feeling guilty for having my “me” time and just went for it. Its a great stress reliever :)

had my 3rd (of 4) private lesson tonight and my teacher pulled me into the office for what was very obviously a well-rehearsed hard sell for more lessons. I’ve got a bunch of group classes left and I was happy to keep going to those before signing up for any more. I’ve already spent way more than I expected. But here I was getting hammered with the whole spiel about committing to more. I’m really feeling pissed. On top of this… I got a bait and switch. THey said my $484 was 4 private lessons (30 minutes) and 8 group classes (1 hour each). Then tonight when I said I still had 7 group classes left, he said, oh, well, actually, each hour is considered 2 half-hour classes, so you only have 6 (*translation, 3 full-hour classes).

I guess you really have to ask a lot more specific questions. The sneaky “package” they sold me felt like more than I wanted to spend and now I feel really duped. It takes so much away from what was supposed to be a really fun activity that I was investing in for myself.

Oh well. Time to research some other options.

Holy smokes am I ever glad I decided to go to my dance classes last night. I made it to the gym a little after 4pm, did 5 miles of run/walk intervals (burned 600 calories!) had a shower, did some stretching and drying off in the sauna, which I had all to myself, felt sparkly and new, ran home to put some dance clothes on… realized I didn’t HAVE any dance clothes… wore something pathetic and moomoo-ish, put on some makeup, and made it just 2 minutes late for my lesson. We did tango, rhumba and salsa review. I had fun. I’m enjoying my teacher a little more. And then had the group class at 8pm.

Group class was tango first half hour, merengue second half hour. Now, granted, there weren’t enough men to go around, and only one was as tall as I was, and we had to keep swapping partners so none of the women would get stuck with friendly Casper for more than 3 or 4 minutes in a row… BUT I HAD SO MUCH FUN. The tango teacher was a woman who taught a bit better than my private session teacher, so I definitely learned. And the merengue teacher was a very short guy but he was a great dancer and the few times I partnered with him I really enjoyed it.

PLUS!!! Each of the teachers independently remarked at how good I was and asked how long I was taking lessons and my private teacher said I can jump into the intermediate level group classes! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to pick my sister up and bring her to my mom’s house after that, and I was so psyched and hyper I couldn’t stop dancing and trying to teach my sister. It was a great evening. I want more joy in my life and last night I had more and it was AWESOME.

and almost decided to skip tonight when my mom said she needed someone to pick up my sister at 10pm. Just decided I’m still going to go. Lesson at 7pm followed by my first group class at 8pm, and then go pick up my sister and bring her to my mom’s.

I do love dancing, but these lessons aren’t exactly as exciting as I had hoped. The teacher is kind of just so-so. Still, I’m committing to doing these and from here I’ll start looking for other ways to get more involved in dancing. Dancing makes me truly happy and it’s great for your health and you can do it for the rest of your life in one form or another. I’m not going to let a few bumps in the road keep me from really starting to involve myself with it.

I love to dance and would love to be good at it.

it was fun as hell. I realize how important it is for me to loosen up a little and not be afraid to move my body around. I keep finding myself wanting to restrain the way I move, so as not to attract attention. I’m really too buttoned up. I want to be more animated and sexy and loose with the way I move. I hope dancing will help with this.