Intro to Dance, Wednesday Period 1

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity greeted the whole class with a big grin as they entered. "Welcome to your final class," she said. "Next week will be the final - where you're just going to have to successfully dance to about a minute or so of music, don't worry - so today is the last day to teach you a dance. Which means today, you learn the tango."

She immediately put on music, slow and sultry. "The tango is about desire and passion, for life, for love, for sex, even for violence," she explained, easing into a solo routine. "Even if you learn the steps perfectly, you have to figure out what passion you're unlocking during the dance to really make it work. Otherwise, you're just doing a collection of fancy steps."

She stopped dancing, bringing her feet together in preparation for leaning the steps. "The Argentinian tango is complicated, with eight individual steps," she said, starting to demonstrate the follower's steps. Then she moved to showing off the leader's steps, which were the follower's except in reverse. "So, let's practice, a one and a two and a three and four."

Comments

Stretch and Listen to the Lecture

[arboreal_priestess]

Eight steps. Gotta learn all of them, first as the follower and then as a leader.

Re: Stretch and Listen to the Lecture

[white_oleander]

Astrid (still feeling a little sore from Other Astrid's very dedicated training sessions over the weekend) was making a point to get good stretching in today before paying close attention to the steps. Nice, clearly defined steps that were, in theory, easy to execute, especially with focus and effort.

Now the passion part, that was a little more difficult to come by...