The Personal Blog of a Professional Technologist » Dance http://www.likertland.com/blog Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:22:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Dancing, Dancing and More Dancing… http://www.likertland.com/blog/2008/02/10/dancing-dancing-and-more-dancing/ http://www.likertland.com/blog/2008/02/10/dancing-dancing-and-more-dancing/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:23:15 +0000 jason http://www.likertland.com/blog/2008/02/10/dancing-dancing-and-more-dancing/ Five hours of dancing tonight, my feet are killing me, my back is a little sore. It was a blast. Damn you, Damon, for always talking about it!

I’ve finally got my program from my instructor. I’m working on my social foundation and I’m going to see how it goes.

Tonight I tango’ed for an hour, practicing over and over for clarity’s sake. After that I went and did some hustle for the first time (not my best start on a new dance) before moving to the Cha-Cha and some waltz. Thankfully I’m a little more practiced in those! Then our weekly “Practice Party” where most of the students get together with the instructors, bring in a DJ and dance for an hour and a half.

Good times had by all. Sadly the liquor guns were broken and I had to tough it out with some not-so-good, as in bad, wine. Thankfully my dance partner(s) were awesome and I had a lot of fun.

Jason

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Everyone be safe out there. We’re supposed to get another four or five inches before it’s over. The roads are slick!

Jason

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I’ve been going for the past couple months and I totally love it. The fact that I don’t have a partner is fine; I’ve got a patient instructor for my private lessons and some rather cool people during the group lessons.

I don’t have any huge goals for myself. (Donald Trump would be pissed.) I just want to have fun, do something challenging, and learn a new skill. Currently I’m working with Sara, my instructor, to work up a “Social Foundation” lesson plan geared towards being decently skilled in most social dance situations.

Oddly, I’m really digging the Latin dances that I’ve started to learn. Today is the first day I’ve done the Cha-Cha and we’ve currently done the Mambo and the Rumba.

Tonight a bunch of us from class and some of the instructors are going out to Rednecks, a bar/saloon in town for drinks and dancing. Happy Thursday to me. I’m off to join ‘em now.

Until next time!

Jason

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