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Double. Triples. B8.

In which I sleep too long, dance too much (ha!), and life allows me a few moments to bring my readers partially up to date.

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I started my day by oversleeping my alarm. This is a Huge Surprise, what with my now SIX NIGHT PER WEEK dance schedule which includes one double- and two triple-event evenings. Damn! Even for one as Inexhaustable as myself, this is a little nutty, no? Take a look:

Monday
8-9pm Group Tango lesson

Tuesday
Currently free (amazing, but true)

Wednesday
Private Salsa Lesson 7 - 8pm
Tango Practice session at Salon Pavadita 8:30 - 10pm
Salsa (with live music) at Sipango 10pm - ?

Thursday
Private Tango Lesson 7:15 - 8:15pm
Salsa (with live music) at Carson's Live 8:30pm - ??

Friday
Salsa at Stratos, 9pm - 2am

Saturday
Salsa and/or Tango at various locations

Sunday
Salsa Group Lessons (intermediate) 6:15 - 7:15pm,
Salsa Group Lessons (advanced) 8:15 - 9:15pm
Salsa at Monica's (live band), 9pm - ? (usually about midnight)

Anyway, I arrived at work more-or-less on time and immediately showed the Gotan Project music video (for their most famous track, Santa Maria) to some coworkers and the PseudoGift. Whatever you may think of the music, this is a very very sexy video, which effortlessly captures both the sensuality and aggression of the dance and the urbane nature of the music. This is in direct contrast to the video they include in their CD "Inspiracion," which . . . well . . . it sucks ass. It's terrible. It tries soooo hard to be erotic that it makes me chuckle. Just to be clear, the CD itself is OK . . . it's the bonus video which is horrible. Terribly horribly no good and very bad.

Spent some time in the parking lot teaching SistrahSuplex the basic 8 (as well as a rank amateur like myself could be expected to do so) and laughing about Friday night's escapades. It's nice to have you back, Sistrah. Stick around a while this time? (I know, I know: "bite me" . . . fine. I'll sharpen the fangs and prepare myself).

By the time evening rolled around, I had decided that my Monday evenings needed a major upgrade in attitude and I abandoned--permanently--the lifeless and ridiculously amusical group lessons of the past two weeks. Never again, amigos. I'd rather have sex with a dead Walrus . . . really, I would. Instead, I went to George and Jairelbhi's group lesson in Farmer's Branch . . . which was lively, energetic, challenging, and actually had some relationship TO THE MUSIC. Imagine that! Wow! Novel concept! Innovative! Wild! Unreal! Unheard of! Scary! It was a great class. There were exactly 5 couples there, each well matched, and we did something very interesting . . . we puzzled out how to put the girl into forward ochos from every single point of the Basic 8. This was a cool exercise, and was aimed at getting us to understand and FEEL where our weight is at various points of the B8 and to understand and FEEL how we can elaborate any of these points. Although not every place in the pattern is particularly conducive to starting a forward ocho, it can be done . . . and in a couple places it was a challenge to figure it out (I should point out that in one particularly awkward place G & J didn't actually show us a solution . . . they made us try to discover it on our own before they gave us some options.)

There's much more to say, but you'll have to make due with the crumbs of Greatness I've had time to proffer. Sleep well my friends, and remember to tithe (ask for my address if you have any doubt about where to send the $$)

Posted by earwicker at December 6, 2004 11:59 PM