About Beth
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I sprained my butt doing the Charleston.
It's embarrassing, AND true, AND I was doing the coolest awesomest move!
Imagine your stereotypical movie flapper, a girl from the 1920s with bobbed hair, a fringey dress, and a long string of fake pearls. She's dancing, twirling her necklace. And how is she dancing? It looks sort of like she's taking a step or two forward, a step or two back, while bouncing and twisting on her toes.
So there are all these cool variations you can do. Chris and I are taking a charleston class, and we learned some spiffy moves, like one where you spin in a circle as you're doing it, or where you kick your leg out on the forward step, or where you bend and touch the ground during the backward step. (Then I learned a bunch more moves at this weekend's Stompology workshop).
Another dancer told of a near-miss where he was bending to touch the ground at the same time as his partner decided to do a big kick. He was glad he didn't get kicked in the head, but Chris and I immediately thought how AWESOME it would look if we coordinated it (That's our reaction to aerials too: "We could get hurt? Hot dog, let's try it!"). So he bent down and I made a big circular kick around his head. Woohoo! Yeah! That was great! Then we decided to alternate, where he'd duck while I kicked, then I would duck while he kicked. Our friends told us it looked really amazing - just before I bent over a little too much and OW pulled a muscle in my butt.
I'm sitting on an ice pack now. I would find this blog post humiliating if it weren't so funny.
It's embarrassing, AND true, AND I was doing the coolest awesomest move!
Imagine your stereotypical movie flapper, a girl from the 1920s with bobbed hair, a fringey dress, and a long string of fake pearls. She's dancing, twirling her necklace. And how is she dancing? It looks sort of like she's taking a step or two forward, a step or two back, while bouncing and twisting on her toes.
So there are all these cool variations you can do. Chris and I are taking a charleston class, and we learned some spiffy moves, like one where you spin in a circle as you're doing it, or where you kick your leg out on the forward step, or where you bend and touch the ground during the backward step. (Then I learned a bunch more moves at this weekend's Stompology workshop).
Another dancer told of a near-miss where he was bending to touch the ground at the same time as his partner decided to do a big kick. He was glad he didn't get kicked in the head, but Chris and I immediately thought how AWESOME it would look if we coordinated it (That's our reaction to aerials too: "We could get hurt? Hot dog, let's try it!"). So he bent down and I made a big circular kick around his head. Woohoo! Yeah! That was great! Then we decided to alternate, where he'd duck while I kicked, then I would duck while he kicked. Our friends told us it looked really amazing - just before I bent over a little too much and OW pulled a muscle in my butt.
I'm sitting on an ice pack now. I would find this blog post humiliating if it weren't so funny.
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2007-06-13.