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[danceboy]

A woman came up to me at the dance last night and told me that she missed my presence while I was away, and that she enjoyed watching me dance and what I did to the dance. I was dumbstruck. Within a minute I was high on her words, but I had this moment of flat out incomprehension. I think I looked like a fish gasping for air.

What she said lifted me up and did something beautiful to my dance. I had confidence that I could move however, and I turned out to be right. I was aware that people were watching because they liked what they saw. I felt connected to everything in the room and ease in my motion.

I remember doing things that I'm pretty sure can't be done. I'm not sure how much is "I'm wrong about what's possible", and "when I'm high I don't remember things very accurately" (and how much is a pomo "if that's what you remember, that's what happened for you").

It was three hours of euphoria. Every now and then I think that I could give up coding for dance. I think I'd go nuts within a month, but I'd have a wonderful month til then.

Late in the night I shared a lovely dance with her; lightness, ease, flow, and joy. I even had the guts to approach Neige for a dance (when I grow up I want to dance like Neige). Sometime around the middle someone asked me if I would teach her CI. It's surprising that my ego fits through doors just now...

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[danceboy.livejournal.com]

Do you think that Karl Frost should teach me CI, too?
Sure.

Have you heard of the guy?
Not until just now. Looking around on Google, he seems to have taught a generation that is just now becoming teachers themselves (including last night's DJ @ Dance Freedom. If I'd checked my journal earlier I could have asked him (hmm, actually, no, looking at the time, I was already there when this went up))).

The comments that I see regarding him make me think he's a bit heavier on the "Your hip goes here, your arm goes here, then push" side than I would like. To be fair though, I came to CI with a fair appreciation of how to get my body to do things, my issues have generally been with letting go, and not "doing moves" but dancing, and letting go of what "should" happen.

FWIW, I'd probably take the class if it were in Boston, but I'm not in grad school anymore so it's much less of my free time being invested.

[queen-of-wands.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your input. I feel a bit silly, because I do know how to use Google myself, although I wouldn't recognize names of his students. Sounds like a very different teaching style than what I got Wednesday night, which was more like "You might want your hip to go places." I think I will take the class. I might be in grad school, but I'm way too excited about dancing.