Finals are over! I can concentrate on dance now!
Today was just not a hornpipe day. I have started running recently to work on stamina, but it just wasn't happening today. And my back trebles. Oh, my back trebles...
I'm reelly excited for my reel (bahaha, couldn't resist). My second step now has this nice spinning move a la Ciara Sexton. Here's to hoping I don't fall on my face at a feis...
My new set would be coming along, had I not decided finals were more important... :] Now that I am done, I think I can actually focus on learning it for real, and not just having to remember parts of it when I get to class.
Oh, and I have also learned my umpteenth spot in the figure. This is mine for real now (or at least until nationals). There is something about this new place I'm doing that just seems...easier for me than the spot I was doing prior to it. I like it.
A few weeks ago I went to see Lord of the Dance at UVA. It most certainly was a once in a lifetime thing in a not-so-good way. I don't think I will ever go see it again live, I will just stick to my DVD of one of the original performances. Don't get me wrong, the dancers were good. The show just pisses me off because so much of it is pre-recorded, and it's so obvious. I can't wait to go see Riverdance in June to erase this bad memory from my mind...
Goals: Remember Drunken Gauger, back trebles
Days till NANs: 52
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5.12.2010
1.08.2010
2010 goals and other odds and ends
Happy new year!
Without further ado, my dance goals for 2010:
1. Place regularly, and win at least one prelim competiton
2. Don't get last at Nationals
3. Recall at the Oireachtas
Right after the new year (and after not dancing since the Oireachtas), we had a two day workshop to learn our new steps for the year. I am doing slip jig and treble jig again, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because I love slip jig, and am pretty good at it, and love the feeling of flying. A curse because these treble jig steps have quite a few rhythm parts in them. I am not the best at rhythm, and I now know why. Apparently I've been trebling wrong. And no one could have told me this before?
It's a good thing Nationals are about six months away, I have to re-train my body to do the most simple thing. (Frustrated)
Goals: Fix trebles
Days till NANs: 176
Without further ado, my dance goals for 2010:
1. Place regularly, and win at least one prelim competiton
2. Don't get last at Nationals
3. Recall at the Oireachtas
Right after the new year (and after not dancing since the Oireachtas), we had a two day workshop to learn our new steps for the year. I am doing slip jig and treble jig again, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because I love slip jig, and am pretty good at it, and love the feeling of flying. A curse because these treble jig steps have quite a few rhythm parts in them. I am not the best at rhythm, and I now know why. Apparently I've been trebling wrong. And no one could have told me this before?
It's a good thing Nationals are about six months away, I have to re-train my body to do the most simple thing. (Frustrated)
Goals: Fix trebles
Days till NANs: 176
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