Belly dance: new moves, lots of leading

[thebratqueen]

Belly dance class kicked my ass tonight. Other than a brief bit at the beginning where we worked on arm movements and taxeems, it was all on the go stuff all the time. We learned three new moves that I am definitely going to be practicing a lot at home because boy do you need a lot of muscle memory to carry off all the details of them (choo choo double, choo choo single(?), and box step, for those playing the home game).

In addition to that we did a lot of trading off on who was the leader, which means that easily 50 min of the class was nothing but all fast moves all the time. I had my first moment of totally drawing a blank when doing that. It wasn't that I lacked for moves, it was that I was suddenly thinking too much and couldn't remember how to move my arms from one move to another. Ah well, when in doubt: shimmy.

Amusing exchange when I explained to the teacher I wouldn't be there next week:

Her: Oh, where are you going?
Me: Down to Baltimore to hang with my friends. It's basically going to be like a big slumber party.
Other student: That's cool. So do you give each other facials and do each other's hair and stuff like that?
Me: Actually we tend to hang out and watch gay porn.
Other student: Ha, you're funny.
Me: 8)

Now to continue attempting to find a good mp3 of Nine Inch Nails's new song putting together a playlist of music to make into a mix CD for the drive to Connexions.