Hafla in Quintavia
Feb. 17th, 2011 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bethlakshmiI'm quite excited - I'll be going to the Hafla this weekend! I'm psyched to dance and get to see everyone!
Then off to celebrate a birthday in the evening!
ALSO! Extremely cool, I'm now teaching 2 (count 'em!) classes on Sundays:
11:00 AM Dance Complex, Cambridge - Bollywood - I'm substitute teaching for one of my teachers while he goes to India to renew his Visa. Limited time only - he's back mid April.
6:00 PM - my very own "Bump -n- Grind Your Butt Off" - http://www.bostonbabydolls.net/classes.cfm - A totally 100% "Betty" class. Partially inspired by Evil Anne and her Death by Shimmies (there is a good solid 10 minutes of shimmying), partially inspired by being bored in just about every aerobics class I've ever taken, and mostly inspired by just having a really great set list of Babydolls-esque music that makes me want to dance. It's a guided dance workout - not beating on technique, but enough complexity to keep you engaged, and if I see people getting the hang of something, I add to it or make it harder.
It's been really fun to teach this last one for the last month and a half and we're plowing into our third month in March.
Last but not least - another kickass show is coming up
March 11-12, Mr Cupid's House of Love
http://www.bostonbabydolls.net/calendar.cfm?calyear=2011&calmonth=3&caltype=full
8:00 at the Cambridge YMCA theater
(WHERE WE HAVE OUR NEW RESIDENCY!!! WOHOO!!!)
It's about 1/2 as crazy as the Wrathskellar - a little closer to our "normal" shows - Burlesquey with a certain mix of cute, funny, sensuous and technically cool. But with a certain old timey New Orleans Storyville flavor and a wistful air for a more gracious time.
(but since it's really all about me....)
And a choreography that is definitely pushing me as a choreographer - Save My Soul (version 3.0 if you are a hardcore fan...). This time with 5 people - 4 ladies plus Scratch. With a certain modern musical styling of everyone moving, not necessarily in unison in ways that coordinate. It's really keeping me on my toes - the writing goes in fits in spurts, unlike my normal almost industrial rate of 1 minute = 1 hour, I'm finding that 1 minute takes moments, while the next minute takes 3 hours! And it's also a challenge to the dancers - there's not much time or space to queue off anyone, cause once you get into the "groove" the groove changes.
This is definitely a good technical push for all of us and it's a good mental redux of some of the very non-intuitive choreography I've been enjoying my Indian classes.
Then off to celebrate a birthday in the evening!
ALSO! Extremely cool, I'm now teaching 2 (count 'em!) classes on Sundays:
11:00 AM Dance Complex, Cambridge - Bollywood - I'm substitute teaching for one of my teachers while he goes to India to renew his Visa. Limited time only - he's back mid April.
6:00 PM - my very own "Bump -n- Grind Your Butt Off" - http://www.bostonbabydolls.net/classes.cfm - A totally 100% "Betty" class. Partially inspired by Evil Anne and her Death by Shimmies (there is a good solid 10 minutes of shimmying), partially inspired by being bored in just about every aerobics class I've ever taken, and mostly inspired by just having a really great set list of Babydolls-esque music that makes me want to dance. It's a guided dance workout - not beating on technique, but enough complexity to keep you engaged, and if I see people getting the hang of something, I add to it or make it harder.
It's been really fun to teach this last one for the last month and a half and we're plowing into our third month in March.
Last but not least - another kickass show is coming up
March 11-12, Mr Cupid's House of Love
http://www.bostonbabydolls.net/calendar.cfm?calyear=2011&calmonth=3&caltype=full
8:00 at the Cambridge YMCA theater
(WHERE WE HAVE OUR NEW RESIDENCY!!! WOHOO!!!)
It's about 1/2 as crazy as the Wrathskellar - a little closer to our "normal" shows - Burlesquey with a certain mix of cute, funny, sensuous and technically cool. But with a certain old timey New Orleans Storyville flavor and a wistful air for a more gracious time.
(but since it's really all about me....)
And a choreography that is definitely pushing me as a choreographer - Save My Soul (version 3.0 if you are a hardcore fan...). This time with 5 people - 4 ladies plus Scratch. With a certain modern musical styling of everyone moving, not necessarily in unison in ways that coordinate. It's really keeping me on my toes - the writing goes in fits in spurts, unlike my normal almost industrial rate of 1 minute = 1 hour, I'm finding that 1 minute takes moments, while the next minute takes 3 hours! And it's also a challenge to the dancers - there's not much time or space to queue off anyone, cause once you get into the "groove" the groove changes.
This is definitely a good technical push for all of us and it's a good mental redux of some of the very non-intuitive choreography I've been enjoying my Indian classes.