i'm dancing again.
I am. Dancing again, that is.
You may now be thinking you stopped dancing?? - which, okay. Technically I didn't stop. For awhile there I just performed with my dance peeps doing our regular shows and little else. Tribe stuff transcends dance. On a physical level, it's more like eating than performance. And the only classes I've been taking are flamenco and hula. I had lost a lot of my creative energy around dancing, and I still had to muster a fair amount of management energy to get things done. I think my body only produces management energy as a by-product of the creative variety.
So. The break was nice. I've worked on 2 minor choreographies for PURE [We're doing a short piece for each chakra, which is a very cool idea. Last week the back-of-the-class kids and I worked out a "penis chakra" piece.] and one major spaghetti western hair band fusion choreography. I'm particularly pleased with the latter. It was conceived in a biker bar. I bet my parents would've conceived me in a biker bar if there'd been one in town. It's almost ready for its debut, too.
I've found a new solo voice that I'm *cough* actually going to display in public in a couple of weeks *cough*. I'm having a new costume made. I'm going to local workshops again. I'm - my life is weird, kids - teaching a 30 minute hula party thing tomorrow. I'm enjoying dance enough that I could teach again... except I can't teach a regular class, keep up with hula, join a CST class (which is starting a week, yay!), keep up with my practice & performance commitments and possibly start aikido all at the same time. Giving my body new creative fuel is the most important thing this year, so I may not come back to teaching except for private students for some time still [If you're interested, that doesn't mean no one in TTE will be teaching. It just won't be me. Most of our other members are qualified to teach now.]. So, yeah. Not back to teaching.
But dancing! Dancing I am back to. I feel like dancing everywhere in response to everything.
You may now be thinking you stopped dancing?? - which, okay. Technically I didn't stop. For awhile there I just performed with my dance peeps doing our regular shows and little else. Tribe stuff transcends dance. On a physical level, it's more like eating than performance. And the only classes I've been taking are flamenco and hula. I had lost a lot of my creative energy around dancing, and I still had to muster a fair amount of management energy to get things done. I think my body only produces management energy as a by-product of the creative variety.
So. The break was nice. I've worked on 2 minor choreographies for PURE [We're doing a short piece for each chakra, which is a very cool idea. Last week the back-of-the-class kids and I worked out a "penis chakra" piece.] and one major spaghetti western hair band fusion choreography. I'm particularly pleased with the latter. It was conceived in a biker bar. I bet my parents would've conceived me in a biker bar if there'd been one in town. It's almost ready for its debut, too.
I've found a new solo voice that I'm *cough* actually going to display in public in a couple of weeks *cough*. I'm having a new costume made. I'm going to local workshops again. I'm - my life is weird, kids - teaching a 30 minute hula party thing tomorrow. I'm enjoying dance enough that I could teach again... except I can't teach a regular class, keep up with hula, join a CST class (which is starting a week, yay!), keep up with my practice & performance commitments and possibly start aikido all at the same time. Giving my body new creative fuel is the most important thing this year, so I may not come back to teaching except for private students for some time still [If you're interested, that doesn't mean no one in TTE will be teaching. It just won't be me. Most of our other members are qualified to teach now.]. So, yeah. Not back to teaching.
But dancing! Dancing I am back to. I feel like dancing everywhere in response to everything.