Awesome! Exactly my kind of show: Spectacle, music, humans doing impossible coordinated stuff, and a quiet audience. I’d never seen step-dancing live before. Video doesn’t do it justice. The set was great. I had no idea that The Monument had that nice of a projection/video system. It looked great. There were some small bandstand thingsContinue reading “Riverdance”
Category Archives: Dance
Dance Cruise
Sorry for the interruption of my oh-so-regular blogging schedule. I went on a cruise. Not just any cruise, but a dance cruise. First, the back story. The Laird and I have been taking dance lessons for about six years, now. We’re not as good as one might expect, given that amount of time. There areContinue reading “Dance Cruise”
Sway
Not only am I a professional dancer, I’m also an anti-professional dancer: We paid to be in this one. Sort of like a vanity press book, I guess. After the first one, I said I wouldn’t do this, again. It is fun and I like an audience, but it’s also expensive. The Laird convinced meContinue reading “Sway”
I Can Has Posture!
Unfortunately, “good” posture is situational. I had several requests for a picture of last week’s debacle, so I sacrificed and went shooting again, today. Enjoy the staged, but accurate, dance posture with rifle. The public humiliation I suffer for my art. It’s all your fault, Kay.
Professional Dancer
I won’t be adding it to my resume any time soon, but I got paid to dance! An acquaintance of the dance studio wanted line-dancers to shoot a music video. I love line dancing, but I’m terrible at learning them and remembering them. It was originally choreographed at single-time, which was very, very fast. SheContinue reading “Professional Dancer”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LII
Not Oreos I had two events (dance party and Toastmasters) to bring something to and I’d promised my dance instructor cookies, next time I made them. Hence, cookies. I like not-Oreos. Any resemblance to a trademarked cookie is purely coincidental. Because I make them softer than the cookie that shall not be named, I wasContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LII”
I’m not the Music Guy
A lunch-time conversation: The Laird said, “we can’t do that tonight; we have dance class.” I reply, “oh, that reminds me, I sent Kay a text out of the blue. A waltz. By Stos… something. Stosanovich?” The Laird, “you mean Shostakovitch?” “Yeah, him. Waltz Number Two. The concert version by Haus, ‘haaws’ the German, notContinue reading “I’m not the Music Guy”
Metal Tango
I’m looking for some metal-styled tango music. Unfortunately, there is an actual piece called “Metal Tango” – and another “Heavy Tango” – that skews the search results. I haven’t found “the” one, yet, but here are some interesting ones: The third track, if it doesn’t start there. A bit bland, but non-traditional and one wouldn’tContinue reading “Metal Tango”
Swing Moves
“Swing” is a very ambiguous term. Leaving that aside, I want to learn more moves. I’ve tasked The Laird with picking some out. I found this YouTube video: Clearly that goes too fast to learn much (anything?) from it. “It would be nice,” I thought to myself, I thought, “if there were a way toContinue reading “Swing Moves”
Dear Abby
Abby, our dance instructor, said that she expected hot tub pictures. I told her they would be blogged. Then I realized that there is nothing here about dancing. So, let’s start the dance category with some questions for Abby. Dear Abby,My partner keeps stepping on my foot during the last step of the waltz insideContinue reading “Dear Abby”
Marked Up 