Immersion In Dance

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21.01.2017 - dance dance dance

I’m so exhausted. But still feeling very happy about dancing and practicing!

Bellydance is fine, our pussycat-coreography gets more complicated with each minute of it. But it’s so much fun! My shimmies improve and went best with “Egyptic” by Beats Antique.

Ballet on Thursday was also great. There is sooo so much to learn for me. Keeping knees together, point the feet, belly to the back, hold the head up proud, don’t get too relaxed in the mucles, and hey: now move with all that and keep smiling - AND don’t lose your balance! Haha! I’ll work on that.. Also my french isn’t really the best as I leard only English and Latin in school. Feeling a bit like Joey about it.

After Ballet I also had my first Jazzdanceclass and this also was amazing. I feel like I don’t know anything about it, so much armsarmsarms! Whoa! And where to put my center of gravity? Left leg? Right leg? Between? What, stop, I’m not that fast, what happens with my arms again? - also, so much to learn!

I’m clearly the most unskilled person in both classes, but I WILL DO IT! I’ll bite through it, because I know it will help me to become fitter, more flexible and a better bellydancer.

I’m just myself, and I’ll try to do my best.

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15.01.2017 - Overview of the past days

The past days have been silent, working and dancing and housekeeping just take a lot of time (that I really like to spend for these things). But now finally comes an update.

First - bellydance. It’s really hard to keep up my daily shimmypractice since work started again on Monday (9th) and I had my day off shimmying on wednesday. I still have to drill today. This week it has been really hard for me to stay motivated to practice longer than ten minutes a day. But I had training for one ensemble on Monday (very very very effective!) and for the second ensemble on Tuesday and Saturday. Also very effective and exhausting in an absolutely positive way! Can’t wait to go on with the choreographies!

And now - ballet! I had my very first balletclass on Thursday and it was so so so amazing. I don’t think I’ll ever be a ballerina in a tutu and on a stage and I have to admit that this isn’t my aim either. But I love how I learn new things about my body and muscles and how different tension affection in different ways - I’ll be able to have more control in bellydance and to “adjust” my appearance better and better. Aaaand I’m looking forward to getting more flexible! Yay!

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08.01.2017 - first week’s summary

How was this first week of 2017 in dancing? It was ok I guess. My shimmytraining works well - I raised my daily practice from ten minutes to fifteen minutes from wednesday on. I remember how exhausting the first day was at only ten minutes of shimmying, but my stamina already gets better and fifteen minutes go at ease. Yesterday I took a day off but still it wasn’t unrelated to dancing. I finished the bratop of my new oriental-swing-costume. So now there are only the trousers left, yay!

Today should have been the first ensembletraining, but as it’s really slicky outside we all decided to cancel today and start on tuesday. Maybe I will slide in a session by my own today - lots and lots to try on daturaonline.com!

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03.01.2017 - shimmyshimmy

Shimmy ten minutes each day - I’m keeping up with this! Yeah! And although it’s just day three of this month (which means there have been only thirty minutes of shimmying) I think it’s already improving. By now I’m only doing slow shimmys (one-e-and-a-two-e-and-a-one-e-and-a-two-e) because I want to have control over it. I think that is my problem - losing my shimmy because I have no real control over it.

Shimmymusic today:

..and something not quite oriental..

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01.01.2017 - One step at a time

Today it starts, my deeper immersion in dance.

After three years of continuous bellydancing (but not really getting teached, maybe an extra posting about that will follow) I decided that 2017 will be my year of getting better. Therefor I will additionally learn ballet - ugh, beginner at the age of 28! My brother’s girlfriend is a balletteacher and owns a balletschool nearby. On the 12th of January will be my first triallesson and directly after that I’ll try out a Jazzdancelesson - just to pick out the right for me, or to pick out both, hehe.

My goals are achieving a really juicy, steady and relaxed shimmy - so this month I’ll try to shimmy at least ten minutes each day (musclememory rules!). Right now I’m picking out the right music, yay!

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Goals 2017

achieve a juicy, even and persistent hipshimmy

achieve more flexibility (splits!!)

achieve more balance after turns and better balance in general