dance dance revolution
This spring I started taking a course at the y to become a group fitness instructor. FIrst 3 weeks of fitness theory, then a course on becoming basically an aerobics instructor. The goal was to learn more about teaching in front of people, turning around during classes, using a mic, and join the provincial association to reduce insurance fees and somehow be more connected with the Nia that I teach.
I think some of that stuff has happened but as all of the course time is finally finished I still just feel a little bit changed. The aerobics model seems so stuck and soul-less for the most part, with this hideous ultra remixed music and completely de-contextualized away from the dance arts it came from. I talked to the instructor about using Nia as my class examples to work on a new, desperately needed routine, but each time it was received in a way that I felt like crap, like I was from another planet and had no idea what I was doing. Our final feedback was given to me by someone who just showed up for that class and had no idea what I was doing. Ugh.
In the meantime I really need to work on my classes, to learn new routines, to become better at cueing and talking, to get deeper into the learning. And I still have to apprentice with an aerobics class to complete the program.
I think in 6 months I will sit back and really reflect on what I have learned and be happy about it. In the meantime it makes me grumpy and stretched thin. I have rehearsal for my modern class today as our performance is in a month. I'm performing twice next weekend burlesque and then off to vegas to perform at MEW..... All fabulous but my brain is struggling to remember it all. I'll be glad when I can scale back a bit and get deeper into a few things.
I think some of that stuff has happened but as all of the course time is finally finished I still just feel a little bit changed. The aerobics model seems so stuck and soul-less for the most part, with this hideous ultra remixed music and completely de-contextualized away from the dance arts it came from. I talked to the instructor about using Nia as my class examples to work on a new, desperately needed routine, but each time it was received in a way that I felt like crap, like I was from another planet and had no idea what I was doing. Our final feedback was given to me by someone who just showed up for that class and had no idea what I was doing. Ugh.
In the meantime I really need to work on my classes, to learn new routines, to become better at cueing and talking, to get deeper into the learning. And I still have to apprentice with an aerobics class to complete the program.
I think in 6 months I will sit back and really reflect on what I have learned and be happy about it. In the meantime it makes me grumpy and stretched thin. I have rehearsal for my modern class today as our performance is in a month. I'm performing twice next weekend burlesque and then off to vegas to perform at MEW..... All fabulous but my brain is struggling to remember it all. I'll be glad when I can scale back a bit and get deeper into a few things.