My Blue Heaven

International Dancers Workshop Take 3

*sigh* Exhausted, sore and happy.. I had the best weekend. The International Dancers Workshop was abso-friggin-lutely AWESOME! 😀 All up – 11 classes, 11 hours, over 2 days. Plus I went out on Sunday night to Cave nightclub with a bunch of dancers from the workshop, after which we went to Pancakes at the Rocks for some much needed chow. Ended up getting home, bone weary, at about 4:30am. (Yes of course I’d taken today off work. I knew what to expect!) Suprisingly, I’m not actually as sore today as I’d expected. Definitely not as sore as last time. Maybe I’m more fit now than I was then. 🙂

A quick review – I liked Roger Lee’s classes the most. His choreography is awesome, and his classes are fun.. he’s quite a funny guy too! The routines were quite difficult and fast. Very exhausting, being pushed to your limit… but nailing it is the best feeling! One routine that stood out in particular was to this song “Don’t Cha” by Tori Alamaze (I never heard of her before, but apparently she was the backing vocalist for Outkast “Hey Ya”). Anyway, this dance was hot hot HOT! The hottest dance I’ve ever learnt. And we all LOVED it! 🙂 (I scoured the net today trying to find the song. Heh). We also did a beginners routine to Ciaras “1, 2 Step” which was great, though more like intermediate level! It was really fast!! I don’t know how a beginner would have coped with it.

So in summary, my fave routines were Roger’s sat morning intermediate class, sun morning beginners, and sun morning advanced. All Roger’s classes yeh… hehe told ya I liked his stuff! The other teacher, Peanut (thats her stage name), was good too. But for some reason I didn’t find her classes as fun. She focused too much on detail (you can’t afford to get that caught up on detail when you only have an hour), and she was too serious – bordering on moody at times – she had this attitude thing going. But still.. she had some pretty cool choreography. And some really wierd moves! We even did an african style routine with her – the music was wierd.. the timing was way out (some african style music).. I couldn’t pick the beat at all! So she told us we needed to ignore the music and dance to the counts in our head.

Anyway, oops this turned into a longer review than expected. I’m off to bed now – gonna watch an episode of Stargate (season 4) on my laptop (in bed :D) and then get some much need zzzzzz’s.

Current listening :: “1, 2 Step” – Ciara Ft Missy Elliot

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