#senior lady problems

[darcysreeler]

This summer was incredibly frustrating dance wise. I had it all planned out: I’d hit the gym to cross train more, get all my steps, take a couple private lessons & dance camps...but no. Granted, what I did was fun, but not what I really wanted to focus on. I think I’m most frustrated that while I finally (finally!) have a damned clue what I’d like to do with my life, situations keep popping up that keep pushing that goal back further. I’m so much happier when I’m dancing, yet it continues to be pushed to the side. 

Classes start next week, and after a 1 week warm up to get back into the swing of things, I’m going to try out the prelim/open class that my TC cleared me for back in April, but I didn’t go to for a bunch of stupid reasons. Hell, maybe I’ll jump straight into the fire and go to the prelim class next week.

Hmmm...

[lots-of-treble]

This is now my new norm for dancing from here on out for both feet. Praying this helps keep my arches healthy. Slowly making my way back to dance.

[lots-of-treble]

It happened again...

I’m signed up for the St. Catherine’s Feis (18&O PC) and once again two of us registered and paid and two others registered, but didn’t pay. SO annoying... (Once again, for those not keeping score, it’s in the rules that a feis can combine any other age group with the one above it, but &overs can’t combine down.)

At least this time, I know that I should dance (assuming my foot is ready) because I had so much fun the last time there were only two of us. But what’s super weird is that there’s 5 dancers paid and registered for the set dance of the same age group. Why would 3 dancers dance their set but not do the regular prelim comp??

[abadpoetwithdreams]

At the gym doing dance step drills

I feel like I'm dancing terribly but the key to keeping on anyway is to remember that each time I dance terribly here is one less time I dance it terribly onstage, amiright

[luckylisah]

The tragedy of being an older dancer...

Every time I stop dancing for long periods of time my body seems to tense up and get sore in places, my feet, achilles tendon and ankles especially, yet when I am able to dance consistently I get awful shin splints and sore arches.

I just can’t win.

[r-y-nce]

Took the plunge

Moved, took some time to settle in (also all my savings were wiped out) and just really wasn’t sure what was happening in my life. Realized last weekend that I REALLY missed Irish dance class. I have the space at my home to dance in, but I just didn’t have the social atmosphere, the friends, the everyone pushing each other on. Essentially, I don’t have one of the main reasons I love Irish dance so much.

So I took the leap last night and e-mailed a few studios, asking about their class times and policies. I wouldn’t be starting back again until fall, I don’t have the $$$ right now to be able to afford classes, but will feel better about it once I’ve had enough time to build up a nest egg again.

Excited, but nervous. I gave myself a deadline of sitting my TCRG by the time I enter into graduate school, because I don’t want to be competitively dancing at the same time as school again. It’s too much. But that means I’m on countdown now to official retirement in a few years, and I want to make those years count.

My last two TCs had opposing recommendations for schools in the area, so I’m just checking both of them out and deciding from there. It’s funny, I feel a little strange about doing so and taking up someone’s time without knowing if I will join, but I also am way too old to want to deal with a transfer ban if I don’t get it right. Maybe visiting each will give me some clarity of what I am looking for.

[darcysreeler]

DEAR LEGS

Why must you wait until we’re in our mid late 20′s to FINALLY understand what crossing entails? 

Sincerely,

A Super Senior Lady

[r-y-nce]

Building dance floor... advice?

Hey tumblr dance friends, I’m side-eyeing the project of building a sprung dance floor in my garage. I just moved in with a housemate who is super happy turning the space into a studio (she owns the house) but it’s all concrete. Anyone have any thoughts on:

1. Advice on building?

2. How much it cost you?

3. How much time it took you?

4. How to do it?

Thanks all :-)