All kinds of dances and dancing. Anything that moves. Continued from v. 2007.1.
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All kinds of dances and dancing. Anything that moves. Continued from v. 2007.1.
w00t, 1st post!
Uh… I like dancing. When I’m sure Quinn isn’t watching.
I dance… When no-one’s watching.
I’ve just taken up dance, actually. I need to be a triple threat.
third post (I hope) sacred celtic number. w00t dance.
l wonder if Dancegirl13 dances…
l dance at dances, which is unlike me.
I can’t wait to find out what I am in the _____________ (Blank, for non-stalking reasons: it’s rather local)! It’s a ballet, and I love it muchly.
I did hip-hop at my summer camp, and I was horrible. And I was even worse, if that’s possible, at tap.
I used to want to do Tap dancing, and took informal lessons from my cousin for a little while, but I never really learned much. I have a friend who’s a really good Irish dancer, and she tries so hard to teach me the steps, but I’m a hopeless mess. I do much better on the music end.
I think it would be fun to learn to move gracefully, but, knowing me that’s about impossible. Ah well.
If you twirl around while standing on your head I have training that adds up to jazz via pretty much every other popular form and around six weeks total of actual jazz. o-o
I’ve always wanted to do Irish dancing.
Speaking of standing on your head, at camp, we watched So You Think You Can Dance (I don’t have TV at home), and the part in the introduction where they person jumps into a headstand always made me wince. I was seriously disturbed by it, and very curious as to how he did it… Ouch!
4- I LOVE TO DANCE!!!!!!!!
YAY!!!! This year I am taking ballet and pointe (more than one of each), tap, jazz, modern, jumps & turns, and a grade 5 Cechetti ballet class from a different teacher 45 minutes away. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE DANCE!!
I also want to take Irish, but I dont have enough time because I do other stuff besides dance. Irish always looks like so much fun, its so perky and stuff, and i have always wondered how they get their little Cabriole thing to the front horizontal to the ground……..
POINTE ROCKS!!! But it is painful and hard on the calf muscles….but it rocks!!!!
Lecture time *clears throat*
Dancing is much harder than everyone thinks, it is not a sissy/little girl/stupid easy sport, it is extremely difficult, and I would like to see everyone who doubts me in a two and a half hour pointe class with pointe shoes and all doing everything full out. Their is a famous football coach who said that of all the sports he has ever tried, ballet was the hardest, so ha ha ha to those people who make fun of it. If you still doubtme, TRY IT YOURSELF!!!!!!!
End of lecture. Bye!
Ok, people. Let’s just establish early that Morris is the best type of dancing that you will ever hear of/see. k? Good.
1st I dont know what Morris dancing is
2nd I will probably tend to dissagree since ballet/pointe etc is my passion and I am dedicated to it fully and I am used to the types of style more.
Sorry! But what is it? I am extremely curious……
GOOGLE IT!!!!!!!!!!! XD
(11) There’s also an article in Wikipedia:
http:// en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Morris_dancing
9: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! Dancergirl is SOOOO right! I’m not even on pointe yet (although I will be hopefully in a few weeks), but ballet is VERY hard and very painful. I think that people just think ballet is easy because the dancers make it look easy. It really isn’t. It IS if you don’t try and just do a sloppy job (and most likely hurt your body because of it), but if you really dance it is near impossible. I don’t know. That is just what I think. OK! I’m done with my lecture too! *everyone probably sighs in relief*
I would like to learn to Riverdance, and also English country dancing. I’m very bad at dancing, but it can be very fun and exhilarating and wild. Ballet is not my favorite by any means, but I really couldn’t say why. I think that it isn’t fast enough, and my inflexible, uncoordinated body shrieks in protest. When I was doing ballet it was getting hard to walk because my legs would start to hurt because of an exercise we kept doing.
14- Sounds a lot like rolling a kayak. *is obsessed*
9- point is fun, I’m not doing it this year but it was awesome hard work.
15- english country dancing isn’t that hard. I wish i could do it again but we don’t have it at my current school, just my oldschool. [note: I go to random arts schools]
Ballet is quite fast sometimes!
It turns out that I got the parts that I wanted, exactly, along with one that was a total surprise (in a good way)!!
What do people think of the brand of shoe called “Russian Pointe?” I received a pair (It’s a long story), and I’m rather curious as to their attributes.
10-Let’s not become like some Other People who try to force their opinions upon others…
14-Yah!!! *high fives*
15-People just think of Ballet as slow, but much of it is so fast it is hard to get all the steps in and make them look good, and it totally wares you out, its like…….CRAZY!!! Just saying….
17,18- Yeah, I know ballet can be fast, but I find it really hard to think of it as such. I don’t know why I find ballet so unexciting. I think it’s because so many people are into it, and I like the obscure stuff that sits in a corner and gathers dust.
19: That’s fine. Not everyone should like ballet! I think ballet can be, yes, slow, and also quite fast. I love the costumes for ballet, but I like the kind of music used in lyrical and modern dance. I don’t know why I just said that…
19-I love stuff thats different too, and actually almost no one likes ballet where I live.
Oh, I love the costumes! Except one this year, this show, will be rather not so fun. Think Jasmine from the Disney Aladdin… I prefer to wear more clothes, thank you very much…
I do not enjoy unitards, however.
And I like most modern dance music, too. But I don’t do modern very often, unfortunately.
Ugh. Last night was trying. We were at a party and everyone was dancing and I wanted to dance so badly but the music didn’t move me at all, and when I *could* actually sense a beat I was far too embarrassed and self-conscious to actually dance.
Plus it was the Ramones, so I REALLY wouldn’t dance to it.
I like the chicken dance.
*Buckawk!*
22-Ya, my teachers dont make us wear stuff like that unless we are all confortable with it….thank goodness, but if I plan to pursue a career as a professional dancer I will have to get used to icky costumes.
23-Tell me about it, happens to me every time. I am so used to getting choreography that I cant do anything on my own unless I make it up first, its pretty sad.
23: Aww, I know. I love to dance, but if I’m around lots of people and don’t really know how to do whatever they are doing, I can’t bring myself to do it.
My teacher is all into modest costumes. I pretty much agree with her on costumes.
I think our studio should have more guys, so that we could do a partner dance to a song from Hairspray, but no one comes!!!!!!!! *gets really mad* All the guys go the OTHER studio, because they already had a couple. What we need is a guy to start who doesnt care that he is with a bunch of girls, and who will attract more guys to come. *fumes*
I have decided that I like Russian ballet technique better than Cecchetti. Cecchetti class is pretty boring until we do petite allegros, and they do so much in demie that it is really boring. Russian seems more like, big and like…..BAM!!! LIke they do bigger movements, and have more complex bar work and excersises, so it doesnt get boring. And in Cecchetti we do the same thing every single week at the bar, and in the center, it is sooooooooooooooooooo annoying. I mean, I like it because it contributed so much to ballet, and I am taking the class because it will give me more experience and I will be familiar with it to when I pursue my professional dancer career, but I like the style at my main studio better.
28: Hmm, interesting. I’m doing Cecchetti this year and I’m really enjoying it. I know it’s kinda boring to repeat the same bar exercises and center floor routine thingys, but in a way it is cool because I can memorize it all and do it at home. By the way, what grade in ballet are you? I’m grade one. Which everyone who doesn’t know much about ballet is going to say “Isn’t that for six-year olds??” But, of course, it’s not. It’s actually a little challenging. But not as challenging as it could be.
I kind of know what you mean about Russian… I like Cecchetti a lot, but Russian seems very fun. Last year, I did the grade six Cecchetti exam (?), so now I’m off to majors. Oh, the joys of ballet examinations… *groans*
And we have almost no older guys. It makes me sad.
30: Oh my! You are really high up there. I can’t imagine the day I reach grade six. WOW. Scary thought.
Well, I don’t know if the system might be different, or something… Because my school is not exactly amazing, as much as I love it, so I doubt that we’re ahead. In fact, I get the distinct feeling that I’m rather behind…
I really like pique (spelling?) turns. I used to not, but now I do. I just thought I’d share that with everybody.
I am grade 5 Cecchetti. But I am not going to take the exams since I am not Cecchetti based, it is a lot more beneficial to take grade 5 instead of going back to grade one to start all over, and apparently the exams dont do alot to effect your proffessional dancer career, so saying I took grade 5 at age 13 still looks good. And really, the only thing that is relatively hard for me and my friend is all the Cecchetti arms and placing of the foot, its aggrivating to learn because we do it so differently, the teachers are always correcting us and although I know it is good for me to learn Cecchetti it is a bit annoying……..
I like piques too, but I dont like the way Cecchetti brings the foot to teh front of the knee, how weird is that? Sorry, Russian based-ness is showing now……………
In our studio, we usually just do the back of the knee, during regular classes and performances and such. I mean, front of the knee is supposed to increase turnout, and all that, but I always feel like I’m sickling (Sp?) my foot when I do it.
I have head trouble, in Cecchetti, but the Russian heads seem more natural for me. I don’t know.
My feet hurt.
34-Thats why I dont like it, and it takes longer to get your foot to the front. I have head trouble in Cecchetti too!!! But i have trouble with pretty much all those details…… And tell me about it, a foot massage sounds pretty good right now doesnt it?
Do any other dancers here have trouble with planterfeshitis (SP?). Like, after you wear heels or something and you go on releve, or even just walk, your arches feel like they are going to like, rip or pull really hard or something???
(35) It’s spelled “plantar fasciitis.”
I think so, actually, although I didn’t know it had a name. A couple years ago, it used to bother me a lot, but then it kind of stopped (?)
Aaaaaaaaaah. Fooot massage, foot massage…
32: I know I’m behind. I started ballet at age five, but my dance studio didn’t really do much for me…? I’m not sure. Anyway, I switched studios when I was ten, so it’s almost like I’ve only been taking ballet for four years…instead of the literal nine.
I have head trouble too! My teacher is always saying to me “ears back!” But then when I put my ears back it looks as though I’m this proud person walking around. Ugh. It’s really annoying. I’m not sure if that is what you guys were talking about…
36-THanks!!! I will remember that…………
Hey! I dance too!!!!! How exactly do you put your ears back?
40: Please do not ask me. I have a major problem with that. It’s one of those things that you just DO, can’t try and explain how. Like, how to wiggle your ears or something. It just happens. And that is why it is so discouraging!
I tried to figure out how to put my ears forward/back during class today, but I was just confused. And then my teacher got mad at me because I was messing up my ronds de jambe timing. *sigh* I was on the end of the barre (I like doing that, when I don’t forget the excercise…), so I couldn’t look at anybody else. Ugh.
40/41/42- What are you talking about? I am so lost……….
I think we’re talking about how to put our ears back?? I’m a bit confuzzled myself.
I’m listening to Waltz from the Nutcracker… it always makes me feel so happy! (Obsessed? Me? Never! Addicted to Nutcracker? Well, maybe…)
Does anyone else here do dance for fun and not to become a professional?
Yes. Morris dancing is just for fun. (Well, we bag, and the adults spend it on beer, but…)
I’d really like to be professional, although I’m not certain that I’m good enough. But that would be amazing if I could be…
I kind of need stretching or strength help, because I need to get my leg up in devlopee (sp?) to the front in this one dance, and I can’t get it past 90 degrees. Any advice?
44-What is putting your ears back? I dont get it….
My dream has always been to be a professional.
47-When you stretch, turn off the air and turn on the heat where ever you are, just find a way to get really warm, and put your leg up on the bar in fourth. Take big deep breaths and relax into your stretch, it helps so much!!!! Imagine you are on a beatiful scenic island with some cute guy and just relax. As for working on strength, in our class we put our leg on the bar, and engage our muscles like we are trying to lift it off of the bar, hold it, then press your leg into the bar, and repeat it a couple times. Do this every day until you can get your leg off the bar, we worked on it during the summer, and now we can get our legs like, 3 inches off of the high bar!!!! You could also get those little one pound weights that velcro around you ankles, and do your developes with those on your ankles. All of this will help so much, I garuntee!!! Hope I helped!!!!
Good luck!!!
-Dancergirl, lover of strengthening warmups
47-by the way, in post 48 when you try to lift your leg off the bar, try to get your inner thighs to help, it will help strengthin them. I would say more, but my mom (dance teacher) claims to say she doesnt remember telling us to try not to use a certain muscle. She has been having so many memory problems (horemones) and it gets on my nerves becuase she acts like its foolish when I ask her questions.
Ooh. Okay, thank you!!!
I’ll do that all the time, now. *Stretches upon barre in sleep*
50-You are most certainly welcome!!!
Ok lately I have been talking about becoming a ballet dancer, and I already knew it would be extremely difficult, but its like people think its hopeless, and impossible, and dont even want me to try. They are like ‘its real hard to get into ballet babe’ well I dont care its my dream so there.
Awwwwwwwww… I bet you can “make it”. From what you’re saying on this thread, you sound like you know what you’re doing (though I guess I’m not a great judge), and you sound really dedicated. And I think that’s what matters…
But I think I would be really lucky if I made it into the corps somewhere, in a really insignificant company. And I need/want to go to college, so… *is confused about the future*
But I would really like to dance professionally.
Owwwww…
It’s always fun to come back from Christmas break, and then die metaphorically when you wake up the next morning after the first class. *complains*
Oh i know, its like your not flexible and cant to a thing!
I do Highland dance…this Summer Vac I was suposed to learn my exam exercises…
Mrs C is going to be mad!
Flamico is PRETTY……
I can….
I can…..
I can NOT do any dancing that you have to learn. nope.
54-Heh, yeah.
I wish I could dance Flamenco. I took a couple classes, for a thingy, and it was amazingly fun. However, we only ever got to stomping madly in character shoes (not that many of us were really good), and messing up on claps. Still, it was great.
Highland dance sounds fun too.
I’m going to audition for a couple places this spring, for summer dance, which is making me really nervous. But it’s scared me into stretching every night while I do my homework, so I guess that’s a good thing…
I have to strech to work my turn out for pointe/ ballet. It really hurts but I think I may have improved slightly! All I take is ballet and pointe but for a couple of weeks last year I took this really fun ballroom dancing class at school and I’m really hoping that I an take more over the summer.
58 – I remember the ballroom dancing class. It was really fun.