I have not much interest in doing much of anything today. I'm content to sit and read while Z plays with his toys, and occasionally flings himself into my lap. This is probably because the last few days were full full full of stuff!

Yesterday was a DCTV taping for a project of sargent's, followed by a three-hour speed lindy workshop. This wasn't quite ( Read more... )

I'm not the first person to come up with the idea of dance as a metaphor for life.

Balance and swing, promenade 'round the ring,
It's a joy to embrace and a grief to let go.

I first learned to contra dance in 1997, at the Heritage Dance Festival in Plymouth Meeting, PA. A member of the band I was playing in back then sent a message to the ( Read more... )

Friday night I went dancing for the first time since...oh, forever. Well, October, really, but it sure seemed like forever. Aaron stayed home with Z, and skellington, partytrick, vatavian, and I piled in the car and headed out to the local contra dance ( Read more... )

My first paper-free weekend. How lovely. How peaceful. How nostalgic.

Friday night I went contra dancing. Saturday I spent lounging around and snuggling. Saturday night was justben's birthday party--which started out at the superb Dominick's Little Italy but ended up back at our place. (And boy, is our house great for parties.) Sunday I slept in ( Read more... )

Wow, after months of nothing but lindy, contra dance seems sort of...tame. :) The nice thing about it, though, is that you can leave off for months and come back without having lost anything (provided you've been keeping in shape enough to take the workout, of course!). If I tried that with lindy, I'd be in very bad shape ( Read more... )

mastacool is joining us this Friday for contra dancing at Morningside. The dance starts at 8, and there's a beginner lesson at 7:30. Let me know if you're interested in tagging along!

The Explaining Meme, from selenite. He picked three icons and three interests for me to explain. Comment and I'll pick three of each for you.

None of these are particularly obscure, but:

Icons


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My workshop went very well! For a while I thought it would be just me, my friends, and a few stragglers--but the numbers grew as the hour went on, until we very nearly had too many dancers for the space ( Read more... )

I'll be teaching my Rennaissance workshop at the Atlanta Contra weekend on Saturday, Nov. 11 at 1:45 pm, at the Decatur Rec Center. The cost for the whole weekend is $65, or $15 if you just do the Saturday afternoon workshops (besides me, there's contra, zydeco, zweifacher, hambo, and a callers' workshop available ( Read more... )

Well, maybe not so deep. But thoughts, nonetheless.

You see, I have a very hard time asking people to dance. Swing, especially, where I still feel like I'm not quite good enough--I'm just not that hot stuff compared to a lot of the people I'd like to be dancing with. Even with contra, which I've been doing for years and could do in my sleep, ( Read more... )