Last Week

View of London from the Tate Modern

Argh, I meant to post this on Friday! Anyway a few tweaks and here it is…

I’ve actually missed 3 weeks of Wednesday evening tap classes due to illness (and an evening meeting), so on Thursday I went along to the advanced beginners lunchtime class to try and catch up.

K was there! She hasn’t been for about about a year because she was doing other things and then couldn’t make the classes because she was working. It turns out that she did a term at the other tap class that runs at the college with a different teacher. Well, she said it just wasn’t for her, she didn’t get on with the teaching style, it was in a hall rather than a dance studio, and so on… so that has answered my question about whether I should try that class to go back and learn everything from scratch! I’ll continue with rhythm tap.

The lunchtime class was quite small which was nice because it feels more laid back than the busy Wednesday class. We had a go at a complicated exercise of stepping and alternating heel drops, which for me was OK on the right hand side but more tricky on the left. It reminded me of something I saw Gregory Hines do on YouTube. We were partnered up to help each other go over any difficulties that we had and that really helped because we could go through the steps a bit slower and try to figure it out.

Despite missing two weeks of advanced beginners, I was able to catch up quite quickly and remember our routine. We ran through the whole thing a couple of times at the end and it was great – I really like this one! But then, I like them all LOL.

At the end I asked our teacher if I could film her doing the routine for the level 3 intermediate class because I’ve missed three weeks, this week is the final week and I wanted to practice before then. She agreed, but currently has a shoulder injury, so she apologised the movements weren’t as big as they should be, but that wasn’t a problem… all I cared about was getting something to work on because I couldn’t remember a thing beyond 4 flaps! (Because of her injury, our teacher missed a week of classes, so I haven’t missed as much as I thought).

I’m looking forward to this week’s final classes, and then we have a break until the week of 5th of November. I’m probably not going to do level 3 (intermediates) in that run up to Christmas because it’s late and I have a few things on in November and December. I might just switch to level 2 daytime so I have the evenings back!

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