that was something new
May. 14th, 2013 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabineSo, yeah. Last night I completely forgot how to dance. I almost forgot how to walk, which was even more embarrassing. This is due, of course, to working with a new prop.
It is widely known (at least, in our small dance circle) that when you pick up something new, everything else falls apart. Last night was no exception. We picked up canes for the first time in...long, long time. Now, I've had quite a bit of practice spinning poi and I was on flagline for many years, so I am familiar with rotational physics and what my wrists and arms have to do, but man, oh man, was I not ready for cane.
It's a slightly different set of movements that need to be timed to the music. And then we have to do things other than just move the stick. Complicated things like walking or basic step-touch or basic undulation patterns. Things that I've been able to do for a long time suddenly became very hard indeed.
Luckily for my few remaining sanity points, we weren't being asked to learn a long, complicated choreography. Instead, we learned a couple of simple patterns and then strung them together. I left class with my brain pleasantly melty and my hand hurting a bit. Today, I'm feeling good about it. I don't know if this will be a new favorite prop or just something fun to have in my bag o' tricks. Either way, I'm enjoying the challenge and frustration and triumph of working to convince my brain and muscles to learn something new.
It is widely known (at least, in our small dance circle) that when you pick up something new, everything else falls apart. Last night was no exception. We picked up canes for the first time in...long, long time. Now, I've had quite a bit of practice spinning poi and I was on flagline for many years, so I am familiar with rotational physics and what my wrists and arms have to do, but man, oh man, was I not ready for cane.
It's a slightly different set of movements that need to be timed to the music. And then we have to do things other than just move the stick. Complicated things like walking or basic step-touch or basic undulation patterns. Things that I've been able to do for a long time suddenly became very hard indeed.
Luckily for my few remaining sanity points, we weren't being asked to learn a long, complicated choreography. Instead, we learned a couple of simple patterns and then strung them together. I left class with my brain pleasantly melty and my hand hurting a bit. Today, I'm feeling good about it. I don't know if this will be a new favorite prop or just something fun to have in my bag o' tricks. Either way, I'm enjoying the challenge and frustration and triumph of working to convince my brain and muscles to learn something new.
