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This week in Chinese dance class, we actually finished the choreography for our song! I don't think that's ever happened in any of the previous dance classes--we've never made it to the end of the song. We got close in tap class, and kind of rushed through choreographing the finale, but never really got to work on it and feel solid with it. In Chinese dance, we finished the song, got to the very end where we all pose and wave our fans, and then ran it through a few times, and that was even the second-to-last class!
I think honestly that Lanwei is a good teacher, despite the language barrier.* She broke the song down into three parts with a repeating part for the chorus, taught the dance to us in the three parts, helped us understand the transitions between the parts. I like her as a teacher.
I really didn't want to go to class this week, but I made myself. I'm pretty good at remembering the steps, and I'm getting better with the fan, but I'm just not engaged with the class in general. I think I am ready for a break from dance classes. I want to get wedding stuff done and have time to go to yoga class in the evening. I'm considering skipping the last Chinese class. I would feel bad about this: there are only five classes, and there are only five students in the class, and Romy has already said she won't be going next week, so if I skipped too there would only be three students, and missing both Romy and I would screw things up for the dance choreography. I like the other students and I like Lanwei and I would feel bad about that. But I'm already paid in full and I just kind of feel done with it, especially since we finished the song. Sigh.
In other news, we finished our ballroom class as well. We're now fully equipped to forget how to foxtrot and swing dance! :) We talked to our teacher, Joe, about doing a private lesson or two to get ready to dance with our song. He looked up the song online and he says it's more of a triple-step swing, faster than the single-step swing we learned. I was having trouble doing the swing we learned with the song, so that made sense to me. So we might do one or two private lessons. Sigh.
*Here's an example. We got an email from Lanwei last week, with links to Chinese folk dance videos on youtube, which said, "This is Han of the chinese folk dance link, you watching it at internet. Have a good weekend!" I know I shouldn't, but I find this incredibly cute.
I think honestly that Lanwei is a good teacher, despite the language barrier.* She broke the song down into three parts with a repeating part for the chorus, taught the dance to us in the three parts, helped us understand the transitions between the parts. I like her as a teacher.
I really didn't want to go to class this week, but I made myself. I'm pretty good at remembering the steps, and I'm getting better with the fan, but I'm just not engaged with the class in general. I think I am ready for a break from dance classes. I want to get wedding stuff done and have time to go to yoga class in the evening. I'm considering skipping the last Chinese class. I would feel bad about this: there are only five classes, and there are only five students in the class, and Romy has already said she won't be going next week, so if I skipped too there would only be three students, and missing both Romy and I would screw things up for the dance choreography. I like the other students and I like Lanwei and I would feel bad about that. But I'm already paid in full and I just kind of feel done with it, especially since we finished the song. Sigh.
In other news, we finished our ballroom class as well. We're now fully equipped to forget how to foxtrot and swing dance! :) We talked to our teacher, Joe, about doing a private lesson or two to get ready to dance with our song. He looked up the song online and he says it's more of a triple-step swing, faster than the single-step swing we learned. I was having trouble doing the swing we learned with the song, so that made sense to me. So we might do one or two private lessons. Sigh.
*Here's an example. We got an email from Lanwei last week, with links to Chinese folk dance videos on youtube, which said, "This is Han of the chinese folk dance link, you watching it at internet. Have a good weekend!" I know I shouldn't, but I find this incredibly cute.
