Thursday, June 4, 2009

faster, faster, slow and strange

Ever been in a situation where you ask a girl to dance, and she says, "nahh this song is too fast". So five mins later you ask her to dance again and she says, "nahh this song is too slow", then finally you get a great song and she agrees to dance and at the end of the dance she asks you for another and you say, "nahh I need a drink", but secretly, you're too embarrassed to have another dance, because you used up all your moves already.. ?

Well level one for the month of June is where you need to be!

This month we will be exploring how to dance SLOW using the six count structure, we will learn how to dance FAST using the six count structure, we will then go FASTER still using six count, and then bam, bust out some freaky foot work to spice up all of the above (yes still in the six count structure).

This is not a block, you can rock when you want to - the only catch is, like a game of dice, we decide on the night which of the above styles we are going to teach.. !!! We are Evil!! (this means.. you need to remember the golden rule - if you would not jog in it - dont wear it to class)

So if Duncan and I are the dark side, Kara and Barry must be the light. They are teaching "fun" this month. A little bit of this, a sprinkling of that, dusted down with hundreds and thousands and I believe you get the fairy bread of swing! Those crazy cats are cooking up a swing storm, mixing all the ingredients that you have together (swing outs, six count, Charleston) and covering them with delicious technique, getting them to ooze with gooey styling, but most of all injecting them all with FUN. This is a block - but its not too late to join!!

3 comments:

  1. Hi Narelle! I loved the class last night. In fact I had just decided that the next thing I wanted to learn to lead was some of those turns.. I'm not sure what the term is, but those kind of turns where you draw the follow in a direction, then provide a block and she turns back the other way. "Oppositional" turns perhaps? Plus, I am very glad to have a new dip in my faux bro bag o' tricks. Thanks heaps!

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  2. Great to hear you are enjoying the class. Show me what you mean with those turns and I'll grab Duncan to show you the lead!!

    Relle

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  3. I reckon Betty might mean the American turns (high and low).. =)
    xx

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