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The Paula Abdul DVD workout that I bought a while back kicks major butt. One should have a good amount of dance experience though (they don't advertise this on Amazon, but it says that its "intermediate" level on the back of the box). I sweat a lot, I learned a neat Paula-esque routine (the last two little steps were really difficult for me to pick up that quickly, I can't imagine how a beginner to dance could do it). Its followed by a good stretching workout with lots of plies - all total its about an hour workout.
Man is she hot and in such amazing shape! She's small but she's healthy too, something I'm so glad people are appreciating nowadays (versus the aerobicized fake boobs image of the 80's). It really was inspiring doing the workout - today I'll head to the gym to use the weight machines and if its nice later tonight perhaps convince the hubby to go for a walk with me or something.
I miss having 'the dancer's body'. I never really had the ballet dancer's body, I was way too fat for that (read - I weighed more than 100 pounds). But though the scale hasn't changed much things aren't aligned as they used to be.
As much as I love bellydance and as much as its easier on the mind (no crazy memorization of routines, no push to perfect something for performance, no drilling over and over again of fast-paced choreography) I need to get back to tap or jazz, its where my heart is. I'll have to see if I can find a class in the fall on the same night that I'm at Umass so as to give myself full nights at home to do homework and see my B.
"Shut up and Dance" ;)
Man is she hot and in such amazing shape! She's small but she's healthy too, something I'm so glad people are appreciating nowadays (versus the aerobicized fake boobs image of the 80's). It really was inspiring doing the workout - today I'll head to the gym to use the weight machines and if its nice later tonight perhaps convince the hubby to go for a walk with me or something.
I miss having 'the dancer's body'. I never really had the ballet dancer's body, I was way too fat for that (read - I weighed more than 100 pounds). But though the scale hasn't changed much things aren't aligned as they used to be.
As much as I love bellydance and as much as its easier on the mind (no crazy memorization of routines, no push to perfect something for performance, no drilling over and over again of fast-paced choreography) I need to get back to tap or jazz, its where my heart is. I'll have to see if I can find a class in the fall on the same night that I'm at Umass so as to give myself full nights at home to do homework and see my B.
"Shut up and Dance" ;)
Dance types
Date: 2003-06-18 10:10 am (UTC)I don't know much about Flamenco, I had assumed it was almost like latin ballroom dancing (like the pasa doble or something). At some point I'd like to get back to ballroom dance - I had a lot of fun with the latin dances and the swing and disco (and those definitely get you moving).
I've always wanted to do Irish Step dancing - its similar footwork wise to tap but the upper body is totally different (as in, you're arms don't really do anything). I've done some Irish dancing with Tiggerette and had fun with it.
I guess lastly the type I haven't done that I'd like to try out is modern. When I was in college and started up a dance club our Faculty Advisor set up a class with his wife, who used to dance with the Alvin Ailey troop. This was a jazz class (which I took), and she came up to me after and said she thought I'd be great at modern since I was "very expressive" or something like that.
But my true love really is tap and jazz - the other types of dance are just things I'm doing until I'm not in grad school anymore and can have the free time to find a studio again and take 2 or 3 classes a week (a ballet class to round things out would be good . . . ballet is really the base for many other types of dance and its wonderful in terms of stretching and flexibility). I've found they've given me the most opportunity to perform (most dance auditions I've seen have been for musicals) and its probably my favorite kind of music to move to. Cheezy I know, but since that's what the teacher that I had forever was good in that's what we did most of the time (so that's how I developed as a dancer). I've been doing this since I was 2, so its really weird to *not* be doing it right now :)