Good Practice, and Music Links

Day 11 of Practice

Just got done with another late-night practice. You would think that in the winter months, I would practice during the day when it's warmer, but no, I waste the warm hours working on the computer and then wonder why my muscles are so cold when I dance. I'll try to fix that this week.

Most of tonight's practice was just working on Anaya Tribal moves to my Homework playlist -- two songs each fast and slow -- plus practicing some solo moves to "Beauty Beats" by Beats Antique. But then I realized that I had a few minutes left, I wanted to practice my veil moves, and I was out of slow songs on that playlist. I switched over to my Slow playlist and found "Pilgrimage of Lost Children" by Lisa Gerrard. I don't practice to it often, because it's so slow and stately, but the mysterious vocals really suit the veil! I can't wait to learn more moves on Wednesday so I can continue to work to this beautiful song!

And speaking of music, if you direct your attention to the left-hand side of the screen, you'll see that I have begun to compile a list of bands mentioned on this blog! Be warned that many of the sites have music that plays automatically. They're also rather graphics-intensive, so if you're still on dial-up, you may be in for a long wait.

Tomorrow is the big day!

Is it really New Year's Eve already? I guess it is! So tomorrow is the big day, the first of 365 days of dance practice. I'm pretty excited for it! I've got Rachel Brice's Serpentine DVDs to help me learn backbends, I've got some new music to practice to, and I even bought some cheap yoga pants to practice in! Yoga pants are very much like dance pants, and these ones have a cute pattern on the fold-over waist, which makes them more attractive as practice wear than my boring black gym pants. Of course, sometimes I just wear whatever pants I happen to already be in, but if I'm going to be doing the yoga on Serpentine, I have a feeling I'll want to be wearing stretch knits.

I do apologize for leaving this blog blank for a week. I've just returned from a trip to Vegas with one of my dancing friends (where I picked up aforementioned pants), and I didn't have time to pre-schedule any posts to go up in my absence. But from here on out, it should be posts every day!

If you haven't already, have a look at the links on my sidebar. It's a nice collection of people who make my dance life happier, as well as my other blog and my shop (a girl's got to support her dance pants habit, after all!). I'll be adding more links periodically, but the current list is a good start.

Come back tomorrow to help me start off the New Year with dancing!