It’s been foggy and cold in Delhi lately. (The photo above is of intense fog on the NOIDA DND) And if it weren’t for the fact that I want an opportunity to wear my warm clothes, I’d hate it. I stick to the heater and bathe with water that’s hotter than most peoples’ tea. Today though I discovered two new ways to beat the cold.
One way is to do the warm up from Kat Worthington’s Modern Dance. I didn’t realize it would be any sort of hard work when i saw it, but yesterday trying it out for the first time I found I quickly warmed up enough to consider throwing off my shirt. What does it is the squats. Done with both feet together and placed a little apart, you plie leading with the top of your head. Drop down,squat, raise the hips and roll up slowly. A few of these and you find you’re feeling hot. Interesting.
The second way was to hula hoop the place down. Ever since I got Christabel Zamore’s Hoopdance DVD and the special hoop her company sells, I’ve been trying off and on to keep that hoop up. I restarted today after a few weeks’ gap and found I had not lost out on the little learning that had taken place. Today I actually had a great time with the hoop. I haven’t properly got it yet, but it’s happening. Even trying it out was obviously a good workout because in a bit, I found I was sweating – in the cold!
Wow Mala
I ll definitely give the hoop a try sometime next year
Congrats on your progress!!! I hope I ll be able to make it happen, as a kid I was not great at all!
I am DYING for your Bahaia reviews! you have not received them have you??
Nice winter days to you Mala!!
Dina, no..I haven’t got my Bahaia DVDs yet. Nor the Tanalyn Dalal. They went to the wrong address or something. So it’s a long wait.
That sucks Mala! I remember I was so disappointed when I waited for nearly 2 months for my copy of Luscious to show up, only to learn my order had been canceled due to a computer glitch. Finally I found a copy in a local HMV store.
It’s snowing so badly here, they had to cancel classes at my college. And I”m holding a concert at my home on Friday night, but if it’s this bad I wonder if my friends will be able to come. And I was hoping to show off my Blanca choreography too!
Aw! I hope the snow doesn’t stop your concert… it sounds so very nice. Where are you, I forgot. Would you believe, I’ve never seen snow? Well, I have from a distance, but I feel too cold to deliberately get anywhere near a snowy place and it certainly doesn’t snow where I live. Thank goodness too; it would be chaotic. It’s bad enough if it merely rains!
How nice that your Blanca choreo is already ready to show off. I always get “Oh my god, that’s so graceful!!” for this choreography. Of course, now that Blanca herself likes it on me, I’m doubly thrilled with it. The only part I can’t do well at all is the fast arabic hip walk she does.
I live in Vancouver. I’m not sure the dance is actually ready, but I think I’ll wing it.
Ok, that is COLD. I’d die altogether.
So what are the unfinished bits in the choreography right now?
We’re off the Pacific coast, so usually we get warm currents that make for a relatively mild climate. This year though, the fall was warmer than usual but we had heavy snowfall in the last few weeks.
I might do an improvisation on Friday night, because I’m getting frustration and stage fright with the Blanca choreography. What’s made my temper off is that my quarterly tax refund check got delayed, which meant that I couldn’t pay to go to the two tribal fusion workshops I was planning to this week. Inshallah, though, I’ll get the check today and go to my new kathak class.
You do so much Sajia, it makes me dizzy. What parts of the Venus choreo are you stuck with?
it seems to be alarmingly warmer everywhere this year. WE have had a two-day cold wave so far. The rest… perfectly manageable.
I can’t remember exactly where, I just find it hard to go smoothly and precisely at once. I keep missing moves while trying to do it to the music – btw, what’s the name of the song? I didn’t receive it in the mail.
I guess practicing this choreo )or any) for a long time gets your brain to connect the music and the moves. I no longer have to remember the moves because the music asks for it. And you get to know the song so well, you can anticipate what’s coming next. I usually listen to a song I’m working with a zillion times in my iPod, doing the moves mentally!
The song Blanca uses is Ifrit. It’s from The Flame and the Shadow by Tim Rayborn. Were you expecting it in mail?
We have an active community of hoop dancers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of my friends/students just completed her first 6-week session with them, and is already doing belly dance/hoop fusion that knocks my eyeballs out! Who knew that those years spent hooping as a kid would pay off in our “old age”?