At some point, before this Friday, I must have forgotten to knock on wood. I've pretty often remarked that I rarely get injured, and yesterday I got what was coming to me, and I only hope ice and rest will get me dancing relatively painlessly by the Enter the Blues workshops and competitions next weekend - I think being able to do leaps and ( Read more... )

This dance New Year's resolution is in part motivated by RhythmJuice's blog challenge. I will re-post my goals in my RhythmJuice blog as well (I don't know how functional this link will be).

When I was a runner I learned to set goals in three tiers: goals that I am likely to accomplish, ones that I feel are on the boundary of my potential to ( Read more... )

I have started programming my dance randomizer. I have not programmed for a long time, and I am not familiar enough with Java, but this should be simple enough. Really, the only thing I need to figure out is what is a "fair" way to randomize. I don't think giving each movement equal chance is the best. It should have make each characteristic have ( Read more... )

Not long after I started dancing Lindy Hop I was taking part in a modern choreography course, and I found out about dance notation . In our class, we specifically used Laban's concepts to create a randomized dance (where the length of time, and various movement qualities and spacial relationships were chosen by lottery). Since then I have had a ( Read more... )

So I've been trying to work my way through "Pelvic Power" by Eric Franklin, but I got stopped in my tracks very quickly. I found that the diagrams of bones and muscles in the pelvis were very difficult for me to follow. I bought an anatomy book to help me out with this. I hope it arrives soon. Though this is frustrating, it gives me hope that some ( Read more... )

The muscle of the day is the Vastus Medialis. This particular muscle of the quadriceps is really sore right now ( Read more... )

I have not presented you with anything new for a while. It certainly isn't from the lack of things to say.. In fact I have even written, but for some reason I did not post it here. I wonder if I will let you in on those old posts, or if I feel that they are as unrelevant to you as they are to me ( Read more... )

The Hostel bar became host to a large bithday party. Every popped balloon is like a little heart attack.

Right now I'm salvaging the remnants of a wasted day.

It's exciting that I opened up registration for the Swing Festival that I'm organzing, Dragon Swing. A friend translated most of it into Polish now. So now it's time to update the site to ( Read more... )

I spent one night at a hostel called "Old Walls," it was a quiet place, even though it was a Saturday night. The room in which I slept had three bunk beds, and the night cost me 40zl (10 euro). It has a very Polish feel, we were provided a very thick comforter, and the vast majority of the people staying there were Polish ( Read more... )

I just finished reading a book by Paulo Coelho in Polish. All the while I was thinking "huh, I seem to have gotten much quicker and effective at reading Polish. Now I just picked up Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" in Polish, and my eyes glazed over after three pages. Sometimes you need to be taken down a notch ( Read more... )