Day 248 of practice.
Today's practice was broken up into three parts.
First part: Partial dress rehearsal for my upcoming solo. While digging around in my closets, I not only found a pretty blue silk scarf big enough to be used as a veil, but I also figured out my costume for the solo, too. So I put it on and danced in it, making sure that the veil was going to get along with the costume. I just wore the clothes, though. I need to decide on hair and jewelry and put all those on with it next time, to make sure nothing will catch on the veil or otherwise not work out. But so far, pretty successful!
Second part: Awesome local dancer Kamrah posted a challenge on her blog to do improv every day. Well, I already improv all the time so I decided to try the advanced challenge, which is to do improv to songs I've never heard before. Today I danced to "Aim for the Head" by Creature Feature -- yes, I did belly dance to a song about shooting ghouls. It was a whole lot of fun! But there was a part in the middle where it was just someone talking, and I had to just kind of pose and I found myself wishing that I had my sword or some other weapon to make me look badass. Of course, no one was watching, not even the cat, so it didn't really matter.
Third part: Zills. Ugh! Why am I having so much trouble with the 3-3-7? Anaya wants us to layer it over a Turkish, and I can fake it in class when I'm following the better zill players, but at home it turns into 3-3-what was that awful clatter? I'm going to have to work on it every. single. night. until I can do it on my own.
Try thinking "gotta dance gotta dance gotta chicken in my pants" as your doing 3-3-7. That should help.
ReplyDeleteWow, thank you, that helped a lot! My 7s are still really awkward and off-rhythm but that made it better than last night. A few more days of practice and I can maybe attempt it while dancing at full speed :)
ReplyDeleteDon't thank me, my fellow troupie, Gail, told me about the chicken in her pants.
ReplyDeleteYes, but you passed the pants-chicken on to me.
ReplyDeleteYay! Thanks for the shout-out, and I'm glad you had fun with it!
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