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Sweet, Sweet 16

1/17/2014

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Yesterday I returned, for the first time in...over a year... to Vega Dancelab, to take my favorite "fitness" dance class, Cardio Funk, with one of the most talented choreographers/instructors I've been privileged to know: Durante Lambert.

I came to this class for the first time a couple years ago - maybe more, after a good friend had started teaching informal queer-friendly hip hop classes.  I'd been bellydancing for 5 years already, ballroom and swing dancing for ten, salsa dancing, line dancing, tap dancing, hula dancing, since I was 5.  I thought I knew my stuff, and I thought that my stuff was fun, but also Business.

Little did I know, hip hop was Just Fun.  When Em taught it, it was a bit challenging because I didn't "get" the style; I'm used to flow movements, level movements with accents... not BAM BAM tut tut ta-ta-ta SHOOP bah bah BAH bah-bah-bah.

Yes, this is how hip hop is instructed.  

All hip hop classes I've ever taken have at some point gone from "right foot left foot 2-3-4" to phonetic representations of body parts HITTING some placement in an exact and syncopated moment.

So, thank you Durante.  You've reminded me that I may know how to dance, but hip hop is a completely different skillset and style than anything I've been able to conquer.  You've also reminded me that I can spend an hour doing something I can't do, get terrifically sweaty at it, and smile the whole way through.
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