I. AM. LOVING. IT.
The dance program was a lot different than I had expected. It's a lot harder academically and physically. Mondays and Wednesdays I am there from 8-5 and it is physically exhausting. (Thanks to my conditioning class...)
But I am enjoying it so much. One thing I have loved even more, is the friends I am making. The girls are so much fun and we have such a good time together. For all of my dance classes, we have to go see at least 2 professional dance shows. That means I'm going to be seeing a lot. And that's ok :) A couple of us got together and went to the Ririe Woodbury show in SLC. It was.....interesting. It was amazing, but very interesting. It was fun to actually get dressed up and see each other looking like girls :) We had a great time!
So my Technique class is an every day class and we switch between two awesome teachers. Stevi, and Doris. Well for two days, our big dance studio was being used for another class, so we got moved to a smaller studio. However, being the biggest class, our teachers were not super stoked about that. SO... both teachers decided we'd do something a little different.
Stevi decided we would meet, and all go to breakfast. He said "Don't wear your dance clothes. Dress up! I want to see what you actually look like outside of dance class!" So that we did. We all "fancied" up and went to breakfast! So fun.
Doris decided we would do an exercise that she had done her freshman year of school. It turned out to be the funnest day ever! We've been learning several small exercises for warm up, feet, plie, center, traveling, and so on.....
Well, with these certain exercises, we were to get in small groups, and go perform 4 of these exercises in random places around the school. Inside, and out. If you know what flashmob dances are......that's kind of how we felt! It was hilarious!
SO.... The first one we did outside on a hill. There were windows right at the bottom of the hill where people were inside. People's reaction were hilarious, and one kid was even recording us! He probably thought we were crazy...
The next one we did was inside on the stairs. This one was tricky being on a small, little space, and there weren't quite as many people. But the ones that did see us, couldn't help but stare.
The third one we danced in a random hallway. There were only about 5 or 6 people in this hallway with a random person walking by once in a while. This one was fun just because we were dancing in a school hallway........ and how often do we do that?....... Ya, never.
The last one was BY FAR the best. And the one we didn't get a picture of. Doris has us do this warm up that is very strange. We walk. We just walk. And we walk in random ways, forward, backwards, sideways, whatever. When we feel like stopping, we stop and stretch in a random pose. When someone sees you doing so, they will come next to you, grab onto you somehow, and stretch with you. After a minute of doing this, you roll to the ground, stand up, and continue walking to start over. There's obviously good reason to do this, but just watching...... looks pretty funny!!
We decided to do this one in one of the busiest hallways at the school. There were so many people watching. Some with confused looks, and some were holding back smiles. Some would bury their head in a book and try not to watch, and some were literally full on laughing out loud. It was hilarious! I wasn't very good at it, but one girl in my class ROCKED at keeping a straight face, and I can't even tell you how funny it was.
Afterwards we had to take some random pictures because that's just what girls do :) It was SO fun doing this and getting to know the girls in my major that much better. We had so much fun together! Here's some random shots!
Basically, going back to normal technique class today was a real bummer. But this was sure a blast. No matter WHO saw us and thought we were nuts. :)
