Dancing
I've managed 4 weeks of dancing in a row now, so it looks like it's set to become a permanent thing. It's reasonably tiring and includes the usual warm up involving painful stomach muscles exercises and so on. Still once you get on to learning the dancing it's much more fun!
The dance studios are right up the top of Sydney, just past the city, in an area called Walsh Bay / The Rocks. This is a very popular tourist area, it has a lot of old buildings including an early house preserved in the colonial style and the oldest pub in Sydney, in the shadow of the harbour bridge.
Dance Studio
It's a really good place to have classes as they are the studios of a professional dance company. The lessons are a money-making sideline ("the commercial side"). It means that there are always exciting things going on. Today there were some important rehearsals happening (hence "No noise in the corridors" signs) and also an audition for something.
I've definitely got a bit better by going for just 4 weeks - I'm finding it easier (possible) to pick up the routines. We did a hip-hop one today, which seemed really hard without the music but somehow seemed to just fit in with it when Ramon turned it on.
I particularly wanted to say a bit about Ramon, he is a really crazy character. He is definitely your typical flamboyant dancing teacher.
He has stories to tell us every week, which are almost always somehow related to the dancing we are going to do. For example, he told us a story about a woman he saw wearing crippling heels ("Sweetie, a drag queen could walk better than she was") and then later on told us to walk in a certain way for part of the dance ("Not like the lady I saw earlier").
Perhaps it is just that he relates his stories back to the dancing so we can remember the routine. He also likes to give us mnemonics at various points, for example any movement where your arms going anywhere near the legs is always "waxing" and many other things relate to adverts, particularly shampoo adverts.
As Ramon is instructing us what to do, he tends to be talking quite a lot of the time and sometimes comes out with inappropriate things, making his catchphrase "Did I say that?". For example "Take it easy today if you are pregnant. Did I say pregnant? I mean take it easy today if you are injured.".
I wanted to take a photo of him for the blog, but he came over all shy (in a way that only extroverts can do) and refused to have his photo taken on his own and grabbed the nearest dancer. This makes the photo quite remarkable as he managed to pick a bloke - statistically unlikely given an average of 1.5 per class and only three different ones seen in total.
Ramon (on the left)
I've managed 4 weeks of dancing in a row now, so it looks like it's set to become a permanent thing. It's reasonably tiring and includes the usual warm up involving painful stomach muscles exercises and so on. Still once you get on to learning the dancing it's much more fun!
The dance studios are right up the top of Sydney, just past the city, in an area called Walsh Bay / The Rocks. This is a very popular tourist area, it has a lot of old buildings including an early house preserved in the colonial style and the oldest pub in Sydney, in the shadow of the harbour bridge.
Dance Studio
It's a really good place to have classes as they are the studios of a professional dance company. The lessons are a money-making sideline ("the commercial side"). It means that there are always exciting things going on. Today there were some important rehearsals happening (hence "No noise in the corridors" signs) and also an audition for something.
I've definitely got a bit better by going for just 4 weeks - I'm finding it easier (possible) to pick up the routines. We did a hip-hop one today, which seemed really hard without the music but somehow seemed to just fit in with it when Ramon turned it on.
I particularly wanted to say a bit about Ramon, he is a really crazy character. He is definitely your typical flamboyant dancing teacher.
He has stories to tell us every week, which are almost always somehow related to the dancing we are going to do. For example, he told us a story about a woman he saw wearing crippling heels ("Sweetie, a drag queen could walk better than she was") and then later on told us to walk in a certain way for part of the dance ("Not like the lady I saw earlier").
Perhaps it is just that he relates his stories back to the dancing so we can remember the routine. He also likes to give us mnemonics at various points, for example any movement where your arms going anywhere near the legs is always "waxing" and many other things relate to adverts, particularly shampoo adverts.
As Ramon is instructing us what to do, he tends to be talking quite a lot of the time and sometimes comes out with inappropriate things, making his catchphrase "Did I say that?". For example "Take it easy today if you are pregnant. Did I say pregnant? I mean take it easy today if you are injured.".
I wanted to take a photo of him for the blog, but he came over all shy (in a way that only extroverts can do) and refused to have his photo taken on his own and grabbed the nearest dancer. This makes the photo quite remarkable as he managed to pick a bloke - statistically unlikely given an average of 1.5 per class and only three different ones seen in total.
Ramon (on the left)
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