tap dance again

just for now. It’s really not all that important to me right now. I may revisit this down the road, but for the moment it’s not fitting in with my priorities.

It’s been about 23 years since I’ve tap danced. I think my coordination is probably a lot better than it was when I was 7 years old and it might be time to give it another go. Every time I see how graceful Fred Astaire was in the movies, it makes me want to learn to tap dance – even a tiny fraction as well. It looks like so much fun!

Where to begin? I’d like to find a tap class. My biggest concern is the expense. I’m not worried about how to practice – I figure I can always lay a piece of plywood down in the garage and have at it. I really have no desire to perform for anyone – I just want to do it for fun, exercise and something new to try to master.

I’m going down to Orlando this coming weekend with my fella and I WILL be bringing my tap shoes. I told his mom (dance teacher) I need some serious boot camp on my dancing. Hopefully this really revs me up and gets me a little more serious about this goal.

I also need to figure something out about the timing of practice. I feel like I always want to be practicing, but the only place to do it is the percussion room. I don’t want people coming in and out and asking me all sorts of questions about it. AND I don’t really want people to see me anyways because I kind of want it to be a surprise at my senior recital. sigh Well, we’ll see….

Although I have technically fulfilled this goal, I’m not going to consider it done until I’ve performed or have written a piece for it…

Alriiiight…So I actually did it last night. It was a little scary at first, because I have to do it in one of the music rooms at university and I was so nervous someone would come in and see me falling all over myself trying to make some sense of my feet….sheesh.

So for about 20 minutes or so I strapped on my iPod and tapped my heart away! It felt sooooo good. I want to start taking lessons again, but I just don’t have any time! My fella’s mom is a dance teacher so I think I’m gonna ask her (again) to kick my butt into gear with a Tapping Boot Camp kind of thing…hopefully that might work…

But at least I’m back on feet again…

Yesterday I went to Home Depot and got a big ole piece of wood to put down in the percussion room to practice on. So it’s humungulous. The Depot guy barely got it in my VAN and then it was hanging over my head the whole way home and blocked me from putting my seatbelt on! I’m a safety nut, so I was feeling troubled.

But now it is leaning against a wall slowly collecting dust, until tomorrow when I have time to use it. I just wish it was a LITTLE bit shorter, it’s gonna be a bitch bringing it down and up all the time. BUT HEY. That’s exercise and well, I need as much as I can get.

So step 1. I brought my shoes with me today. I will keep them on my little shelf in the Percussion Room until I manage to find some kind of temporary/movable/storable wood floor to practice on.

Step 2. Figure out what the hell I’m doing.