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elizabeth_mn) wrote2014-06-09 03:09 pm
elizabeth_mn) wrote2014-06-09 03:09 pm
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Dancing on my mind
Last night at dance practice I was reminded that I still don't have a solo step for our June performance in Iowa. Mostly my group does ceili dancing (the social style, as opposed to the more modern performance-based style) but this time we are doing a step-about as our finale, where each dancer gets 2 measures to dance a solo step, then we all finish with some hardshoe battering. A step-about is fun! But I didn't have a hardshoe step anymore. It's been about 10 years since I have been in dance classes, and I have forgotten a lot of the choreography.
So, YouTube to the rescue! I Googled "beginning hardshoe step" and here is what I got.
It starts out simple and gets a little more complex, but never crazy-hard.
Also this one. Love the toe hits behind.
I've also been enjoying watching these Howcast dance videos. I haven't used much from these, because most are a little advanced for me now (well, I used to be able to do back-clicks! Kinda.) There are tons of these with lots of little techniques.
So what I did this morning was to assemble step components from videos like these and from basic steps I already knew, practice them, and write them down on paper. I made them into little chunks of 2 counts, so with 8 counts to fill, I just shuffled the pieces around until I had an order I liked, making one cohesive step. NOW I need to practice my new step one hundred more times before next week's practice - the last practice before our next performance!
So, YouTube to the rescue! I Googled "beginning hardshoe step" and here is what I got.
It starts out simple and gets a little more complex, but never crazy-hard.
Also this one. Love the toe hits behind.
I've also been enjoying watching these Howcast dance videos. I haven't used much from these, because most are a little advanced for me now (well, I used to be able to do back-clicks! Kinda.) There are tons of these with lots of little techniques.
So what I did this morning was to assemble step components from videos like these and from basic steps I already knew, practice them, and write them down on paper. I made them into little chunks of 2 counts, so with 8 counts to fill, I just shuffled the pieces around until I had an order I liked, making one cohesive step. NOW I need to practice my new step one hundred more times before next week's practice - the last practice before our next performance!