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Got to go to my first tribal dance class last night and boy was it a workout. An hour and a half of doing much bigger and slower moves than I'm accustomed to. It feels like I'm learning an entirely different dance in some ways, and in others things are so familiar it's almost eerie. Kind of like when I started learning Italian after taking Spanish.
The trickiest thing was figuring out how to walk and do some of this stuff at the same time. Usually in cabaret you just kind of plant yourself and do stuff. You move around between moves, or in a very set pattern. In this you move pretty much constantly and flat footed, another thing I'm not really used to. Cabaret means spending a lot of time up on your toes, but in tribal you want your heels on the floor.
T- and I were totally exhausted by the end of the night and ended up chatting about how out of shape we clearly were. Then I asked the teacher if she required zills and she said no, this was the beginner's beginner class and in 5 weeks she didn't see the sense in teaching them. Fair enough. She did comment that T- and I clearly had danced before and asked who we studied with. When we said Alyne, she chirped, "Oh veil!" We laughed and said we did indeed study double veil, which led, inevitably, to the teacher saying she'd like us to demonstrate a few moves for the class. T- and I stood around talking a bit later trying to figure out what we both remembered in common. I'm thinking just put some slow music on like "Goddess" and do about 5 moves we both remember and call it a night.
That is, if I can even remember how to use the damn things. *sigh*
Overall an enjoyable, if exhausting class. The teacher's got the right attitude about dance, this is her hobby and she's just in it for fun. I very much didn't want to get into another situation with egos and politics and that nonsense and it seems very unlikely in this one. On the downside I'm feeling muscles today that I forgot I had. If I can stay fairly active tonight, do some stretches and maybe a little Qigong, then I should be able to move tomorrow. Hopefully.
The trickiest thing was figuring out how to walk and do some of this stuff at the same time. Usually in cabaret you just kind of plant yourself and do stuff. You move around between moves, or in a very set pattern. In this you move pretty much constantly and flat footed, another thing I'm not really used to. Cabaret means spending a lot of time up on your toes, but in tribal you want your heels on the floor.
T- and I were totally exhausted by the end of the night and ended up chatting about how out of shape we clearly were. Then I asked the teacher if she required zills and she said no, this was the beginner's beginner class and in 5 weeks she didn't see the sense in teaching them. Fair enough. She did comment that T- and I clearly had danced before and asked who we studied with. When we said Alyne, she chirped, "Oh veil!" We laughed and said we did indeed study double veil, which led, inevitably, to the teacher saying she'd like us to demonstrate a few moves for the class. T- and I stood around talking a bit later trying to figure out what we both remembered in common. I'm thinking just put some slow music on like "Goddess" and do about 5 moves we both remember and call it a night.
That is, if I can even remember how to use the damn things. *sigh*
Overall an enjoyable, if exhausting class. The teacher's got the right attitude about dance, this is her hobby and she's just in it for fun. I very much didn't want to get into another situation with egos and politics and that nonsense and it seems very unlikely in this one. On the downside I'm feeling muscles today that I forgot I had. If I can stay fairly active tonight, do some stretches and maybe a little Qigong, then I should be able to move tomorrow. Hopefully.
