9/18/08

Yesterday's class was so much fun!!!


We began with more Indian dance lessons with two expert gurus Kaliani and a guest teacher. We learned two new dance steps and 3 new hand motions. Each step is getting progressively more difficult. I never considered myself someone who had a lot of rhythm. I always had to practice quite a lot to get the show choir dance moves perfect, and learning the Masaai dance in Africa was incredibly difficult. Bharatanatyam dancing yesterday definitely reaffirmed this conclusion. I know that I am going to have to practice really hard to get the switches and stomping rhythms down correctly. We did this really fun exercise with plastic cups too, to practice keeping our upper body's posture correct while we did our lower body. I think I did pretty well. I only lost the cup 4 times. I definitely think that my posture is improving with this class. We're also beginning to learn the chanting for our end of the semester performance. Learning a chant in a different language is quite difficult, and I definitely have more respect now for all my friends who are in drama or vocalists and have to learn hundreds of lines in different languages. I'm not sure what "Seer Tit Poon Tit," but I definitely plan on asking Guru Francis what it means.