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Leaving on a jetplane (in exactly a month!)

2/12/2014

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I'll be leaving for my first trip to Central America in one month!  That means I have a month to become ten times more badass before I share my badassness with another country full of people - and TWO different oceans!  Though I'm gonna do my best not to have any expectations, I really do hope to spin fire on two different ocean's beaches in March.  

In the last month and a half, I've discovered just how much I love to drill moves.  Choreographing is fun.  Coming up with patterns is fun.  Improv is real fun.  Rehearsing is OK.  But there's something about picking a move (or a pattern of layers) and a good mix of music, and practicing it over and over again until it becomes muscle memory.  I don't have to think at all - just feel the movement becoming slightly more wrote in my body.  I don't have to decide what comes next - the list of drills I've written for myself sits nearby.  I don't have to think "oh my god how long have I been doing this?" because my timer beeps every minute to remind me that hey, it's only been less than a minute or yo, you've been doing this move for three minutes now which feels pretty damned awesome when I only required myself to do it for one, but loved it so much I went for three.

The problem with the fan moves is that...I don't know any of their names.  Writing out drill sequences for my fan spinning is just a list of scribbles reading "spin alt up & down, side plane" and "weave alt finger (side) & thumb (front)".  (That's the move I learned from Aaron over the weekend in the snow!)



Anyway, here's a picture of el temple du danserino, my personal dance church, Theatre of Movement, sanctuary, lit up at night with snow on the ground outside.

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Caelan Huntress link
2/12/2014 02:36:50 am

I totally envy your dance space. I have to make do with a yoga mat in a laundry room right now, and your Temple of Movement looks blissful.

And we won't get into the depths of my Central America envy - but let it be known, I haz it.

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