Quote of the Day:
Feb. 3rd, 2004 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodi"Baby look at me and tell me what you see. You aint seen the best of me yet. Give me time, I'll make you forget the rest." - Irene Cara
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This year's focus in dance class will be developing our own dance, being creative and opening up to being in front of people.
Its really weird that I've been on stage since I was two years old and yet find it difficult to bellydance in front of people. Its just not second nature yet. Put me on a stage in tap, jazz or ballet shoes though and I get the style, the expressions - the subtle nuances that you can't really teach in a dance class but that just develops over time. Rocking out in my car to old CDs that we used to use at the studio for warming up, doing leaps down the floor and in routines reminds me that despite the hoakey traditionalness of it, despite the fact that it doesn't lead to professional greatness I will end up at a community dance studio taking jazz and tap classes again. God do I miss it!
In this class session we'll each need to pick a goddess and choreograph her story in a dance to perform alone for our class. I'm having a really hard time thinking of which one to use. I have a great affinity for Artemis for some reason that I can't totally explain. How to dance Artemis/Diana - I have no clue. I can identify with her affinity to animals and her role in protecting/providing (sometimes very forcefully). I'm also not the most traditionally female of people so her athletic 'running around in the woods and not focusing on appearance' thing appeals to me too. I need to do some more reading about her . . .
What kind of goddess would YOU peg me to be like?
In the next term we are actually going to be choreographing our own autobiographical dances; *that* will be a challenge! :)
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This year's focus in dance class will be developing our own dance, being creative and opening up to being in front of people.
Its really weird that I've been on stage since I was two years old and yet find it difficult to bellydance in front of people. Its just not second nature yet. Put me on a stage in tap, jazz or ballet shoes though and I get the style, the expressions - the subtle nuances that you can't really teach in a dance class but that just develops over time. Rocking out in my car to old CDs that we used to use at the studio for warming up, doing leaps down the floor and in routines reminds me that despite the hoakey traditionalness of it, despite the fact that it doesn't lead to professional greatness I will end up at a community dance studio taking jazz and tap classes again. God do I miss it!
In this class session we'll each need to pick a goddess and choreograph her story in a dance to perform alone for our class. I'm having a really hard time thinking of which one to use. I have a great affinity for Artemis for some reason that I can't totally explain. How to dance Artemis/Diana - I have no clue. I can identify with her affinity to animals and her role in protecting/providing (sometimes very forcefully). I'm also not the most traditionally female of people so her athletic 'running around in the woods and not focusing on appearance' thing appeals to me too. I need to do some more reading about her . . .
What kind of goddess would YOU peg me to be like?
In the next term we are actually going to be choreographing our own autobiographical dances; *that* will be a challenge! :)
