This summer of dance has been completely different for me to other years. I had intended to go to my annual tap intensive in Covent Garden as per usual, but I ended up with some sort of viral stiff neck that week (typical!) so I had to cancel and let my friend know I couldn’t make it. 

I’ve been interested in Horton Technique for a while having done bits here and there, so I’ve been following M-Intensive online platform for a while and had purchased a couple of their videos. Anyway, this year I saw they were advertising a summer intensive of Martha Graham and Lester Horton Techniques, along with ancestral dance styles that influenced those pioneers of Modern dance, namely Afro-Caribbean, Classical Indian, Balinese and Javanese dances, with CPD certificate at the end, so I thought why not? Because I was working through some of it, I did the classes on catch-up and it was hard work but really good fun and I had learnt loads and felt a lot fitter by the end of the 25 hours.

London Tap Dance Festival kicked off its inaugural year this August in Brixton… but I did not go! South London is pretty easy for me to get to compared to Paris, Barcelona, Mallorca or THE USA and very close to where I work (when I’m in the office, that is), but I felt like I had too much going on and I honestly had no energy for it – even though I was offered a discount the week before!

Now I’m two weeks back into my weekly tap class with **new pink Jason Samuels Smith shoes** and it’s great to be back with everyone. I just need to get motivated to practice again!

p.s. I also need to get motivated to write regularly again…