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It's funny... when I was little, my mother decided that I needed to take all manner of classes... gymnastics, ballet, tap dance... and I LOATHED them all. Okay, actually, I kinda liked tap, but it's not something that can be practiced when you live on the 3rd floor of an apartment building with more or less no sound-proofing, so that was short-lived. I started to like dance again when we joined Upstairs/Downstairs, which was all musical theater, and so dance became part of my normal life routine for the next 13 years.
I HATED going to the school dances, though. Probably because my classmates were evil little douchebags and I got made fun of a lot. The fact that I didn't know how non-choreographed dance worked didn't help. Instead, I would take my walkman out into the dark nights to dance in the shadows where no one could see me but the stars and the trees, because I loved to dance.
Somewhere along the line, though, I learned to be self-conscious about dancing and stopped doing it. I'd take it up now and again, through SCA stuff, or when no one was home, but that was it. One of my best friends tried for YEARS to get me to go in to Boston to Manray with him, but I never did. Then, a couple of years ago, I got talked into going to Sin-o-Matic with a group of folks and discovered that once I break past the initial self-consciousness, I WILL dance and don't care who may or may not see.
I've been meaning to take belly dance classes for YEARS. It's gorgeous and it's something that I'm highly intrigued by. The internet has also been very useful in helping me overcome the major weight insecurities I've always fought.
Then along came Shadows of Amun, and a huge key in my character's backstory is that she is a dancer. Her love of dancing is a central point to her entire life.
I'm currently coordinating taking belly dance classes. Not in a "I should look into it" kind of way, but in an actively working out one-on-one intro lessons to get the basic mechanics before moving into a group class, so that I will be able to actually perform in-game by next year.
I feel like I should be terrified, or at least nervous, but instead I'm just festeringly excited and can't wait to get started.
I think this game is going to be good for me, when it's not emotionally scarring me with Plot. ;)
I HATED going to the school dances, though. Probably because my classmates were evil little douchebags and I got made fun of a lot. The fact that I didn't know how non-choreographed dance worked didn't help. Instead, I would take my walkman out into the dark nights to dance in the shadows where no one could see me but the stars and the trees, because I loved to dance.
Somewhere along the line, though, I learned to be self-conscious about dancing and stopped doing it. I'd take it up now and again, through SCA stuff, or when no one was home, but that was it. One of my best friends tried for YEARS to get me to go in to Boston to Manray with him, but I never did. Then, a couple of years ago, I got talked into going to Sin-o-Matic with a group of folks and discovered that once I break past the initial self-consciousness, I WILL dance and don't care who may or may not see.
I've been meaning to take belly dance classes for YEARS. It's gorgeous and it's something that I'm highly intrigued by. The internet has also been very useful in helping me overcome the major weight insecurities I've always fought.
Then along came Shadows of Amun, and a huge key in my character's backstory is that she is a dancer. Her love of dancing is a central point to her entire life.
I'm currently coordinating taking belly dance classes. Not in a "I should look into it" kind of way, but in an actively working out one-on-one intro lessons to get the basic mechanics before moving into a group class, so that I will be able to actually perform in-game by next year.
I feel like I should be terrified, or at least nervous, but instead I'm just festeringly excited and can't wait to get started.
I think this game is going to be good for me, when it's not emotionally scarring me with Plot. ;)