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Session 2, Day 5
We began by asking ourselves what are our goals were for the workshop; what are we working on? This is something that you should be asking yourself in some form or another, every time you take class. Give yourself a daily goal or thing to focus on, as well as a long-term goal with your dancing. We began moving by our normal warm-up. I often went around the room to assist with alignment, etc. We also did the basic connection exercise and added a new Hino task: we learned to find our partners momentum by trying to catch and move their swinging arm. This exercise was a good lead-in to our assisted drag step. Finding the swing of the arm allowed us to find the momentum in the whole body of our partner as she stepped into the long drag that is in the combination. We shifted gears from our normal routine a bit, and went straight into our combination. No new material, but everyone is really starting to feel confident in the movement. This is definitely where we want to be. We drilled the first few steps of the left side (we’ll elaborate on this more next class). And then we did a few of the traveling exercises across the floor to close the class. I mentioned at the end that the pace that we were moving through the across the floor exercises is the pace that we should be doing them all the time by now. Meaning the next group should be coming in about every two counts of eight. We’re at the point where we’ve got a lot of information under our belt, so we should be working towards mastery of those things and adding more to our repertoire. Awesome!