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They did therr Thing
Oct. 24th, 2004 03:29 pmThe Sundance Stompede has been good fun. Sat night was the Main Event. At the Galleria Design Center. The dancing started at 7:30 with a line dance marathon till 8:30. Lots of our local line dances and Hold Your Horses to finish up the set. My studends from earlier that day did good.
Everyone was dancing along till about 11:30 when the lights went out. A transformer blew a block away. What a downer, since the dance was supposed to go until 1am. Eveyone left after the Barbary Coast Cloggers did a dance number in the dark. They were fabulous. I have considered joining them and their lead Matt has said I was welcome any time.
The good thing about the power going out was that I now did not have to help tear down the dance floor at 1am. I did have to be back at 9am instead to help out. I did not mind except that I got maybe 2 hours sleep last night. I thought I was going to cough up a lung. I feel fine health wise, except that I have this annoying tickle in my throat that just makes me want to cough. I tried nyquil aand throat lozenges that we had in the house. Funny how you hack all night, then get up and nothing all day long.
I went to the Ramada after helping with the dance floor and took the Intermediate West Coast Swing Class with World Class dancer John Lindo from NYC. He was very fun and very good. I loved his teaching style. I then took at 15 minute break and taught a dance called do your thing. This dance is a very flashy jazzy dance. Has a lot of hand and arm motions. It took an hour to teach. Most dances can be taught in 30 minutes. I hate to try to get it down to at least a 45 minute teach. The class really enjoyed it., Even one hot butch stud said, while he did not find the dance to be butch in any way, and didn't like it at first, he said he did enjoy the dance when it was complete. It is after the class when people come up to me and thank me for the great lesson that makes me happy to be a part of country dancing. People seen to really like my teaching style. I really love to teach. I really love to share what I know.
I tried to come home and take a nap, but damn if I could not fall asleep, and there is still one more night of dnacing to be done. Of course my students and I have to show off "Do your Thing" tonight at Sundance Saloon.
What really suprises me is that I can't seem to get a bear crossover into country dance. I mean in London, there is a group called Lines and Bears. I talk to a lot of bears who say they like country music, but I never see them make an attempt to go out dancing. There are a few, but not many at all. :-(
Country dancing is such a great way to meet people. I mean where else can you just walk up to someone you find HOT and say "Would you like to dance" I could never do that at the disco dance clubs back home. Since that was all freestyle anyways. Oh well.
All in all, great Saturday, and Great Sunday so far, except for the lack of sleep.
Everyone was dancing along till about 11:30 when the lights went out. A transformer blew a block away. What a downer, since the dance was supposed to go until 1am. Eveyone left after the Barbary Coast Cloggers did a dance number in the dark. They were fabulous. I have considered joining them and their lead Matt has said I was welcome any time.
The good thing about the power going out was that I now did not have to help tear down the dance floor at 1am. I did have to be back at 9am instead to help out. I did not mind except that I got maybe 2 hours sleep last night. I thought I was going to cough up a lung. I feel fine health wise, except that I have this annoying tickle in my throat that just makes me want to cough. I tried nyquil aand throat lozenges that we had in the house. Funny how you hack all night, then get up and nothing all day long.
I went to the Ramada after helping with the dance floor and took the Intermediate West Coast Swing Class with World Class dancer John Lindo from NYC. He was very fun and very good. I loved his teaching style. I then took at 15 minute break and taught a dance called do your thing. This dance is a very flashy jazzy dance. Has a lot of hand and arm motions. It took an hour to teach. Most dances can be taught in 30 minutes. I hate to try to get it down to at least a 45 minute teach. The class really enjoyed it., Even one hot butch stud said, while he did not find the dance to be butch in any way, and didn't like it at first, he said he did enjoy the dance when it was complete. It is after the class when people come up to me and thank me for the great lesson that makes me happy to be a part of country dancing. People seen to really like my teaching style. I really love to teach. I really love to share what I know.
I tried to come home and take a nap, but damn if I could not fall asleep, and there is still one more night of dnacing to be done. Of course my students and I have to show off "Do your Thing" tonight at Sundance Saloon.
What really suprises me is that I can't seem to get a bear crossover into country dance. I mean in London, there is a group called Lines and Bears. I talk to a lot of bears who say they like country music, but I never see them make an attempt to go out dancing. There are a few, but not many at all. :-(
Country dancing is such a great way to meet people. I mean where else can you just walk up to someone you find HOT and say "Would you like to dance" I could never do that at the disco dance clubs back home. Since that was all freestyle anyways. Oh well.
All in all, great Saturday, and Great Sunday so far, except for the lack of sleep.
