Random Amazing Non-Dancing Dancer Revelation Of The Day

[wigglewhiz]

Remember when I bought those DVD's because I was TOTALLY going to integrate them into dance practise for both technique/stamina regain and exercise? Yeah, I haven't been doing any of that.

And remember when I realised that practise dancing beladi was more gratifying that trying to noodle to random music? I haven't been doing any of that either. In fact, I haven't been doing much of anything the last couple of weeks.

Hey, and know how I was waffling some shit about not using my core properly and what a revelation it was that I might want to, you know, DO THAT?! Well!

I put on some random, mindless Arabic pop this morning (Amr Diab Habibi Walah ala Baloh - CHEESETASTIC WESTERNISED DANCE REMIX AHOY!)
and I pottered about absent-mindedly dancing to it. I suddenly realised that I WAS CHEATING. I was doing allllllll shimmy overlays. Because it was EASIER. Not in the sense of shimmy overlays are EASY, because it takes us all ages to get those. BUT! Doing a figure eight as a shimmy overlay let me cheat and focus on the shimmy. I was NOT working the core properly.

So I switched to ordinary, bog standard eights and camels - and focussed all my energy on making them gooshy and juicy and muscular.

FWOOSH - happy exercisey endorphins! OHAI, U SEEM 2B WORKIN' OUT! LET US REWARD YOU!

O_O

How much of my dance dissatisfaction is because I HAVE BEEN CHEAT NOODLING BELLYLITE rather than OMG DANCE CAREER IS OOOOOOOOVERRRRRRRRR?!

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Trufax! I think this is what I miss about teaching - I had to demonstrate bogstandard circles and figure eights and suchlike for about an hour a week, probably, if you add them up and take out the talking and the dance demonstrating and generalised dance noodling and all that, WHETHER I WANTED TO OR NOT. And even though I am all about the "dance and music are intertwined OMG1" I confess that I really enjoy just drilling simple moves without needing to actually dance properly. Which is probably why my simple moves are quite coretastic and solid.