DAY 90 – January 24th 2014 (by Anton Swerkström)

DAY 90 – January 24th 2014 (by Anton Swerkström)

Hur e läget, blogreaders!?

Its Friday already and this week has been both chill and intense at the same time somehow. 
Maybe because evening classes started this week so we have had a little more after school activities as well, including today, but more about that later.
After our regular warmup/workout program (starting to get into pretty good shape now) it was time for Elin to have her class with us. 
Elins style is so sick and unique and her musicality is amazing. 
She did really good, and I could tell how she has evolved both as a dancer and a teacher during this one hour. 
If you have not seen her stuff you should definitely check it out!

After lunch we had our first class meeting in a while. 
I am not gonna go too much into it, but we mostly talked about how we have to keep our focus and motivation up for these last 5 months. 
Not because we have been slacking but just to make everyone really take advantage of the time we have left. We have grown so close already, and it truly does feel like we are a family, I dont care how cliché that sounds. 
Together we will make this semester count!

Then it was back to reality and our last practice before our show tonight. 
This has been a stressful process since we only had a couple days to take one of Tony Tzars choreos that he created with us and adjust it to a stage performance. 
In the end I think we did a decent job though and we felt as ready as we could be when we left Malmö for Helsingborg.

Why Helsingborg? 
Tonight we went on a little fieldtrip to a HipHop Jam/1 on 1 Battle. 
It is so cool that these things are included in our education so that we get to see many sides of dancing. And this was a really cool and well organized event! 
Main focus was on a 1v1 battle tournament bracket with 8 invited freestylers, but there was also exhibition battles as well as constant cyphering in between.

And of course we also did our performance! 
It felt a little weird at first being a “choreo crew” coming into this freestyle event doing a performance but that soon passed. 
People seemed really impressed, and we got a lot of good feedback after wards. 
Everyone was just very open and focusing on just sharing dance in all its forms. 

None of us from the education have much of a freestyle background but I think we all got really inspired with this experience. We have already gotten a little sneak peak at next weeks schedule and there is a couple freestyle training sessions in there. 
Time to step up my freestyle game, I guess I know what I am doing this weekend :)

Anton Swerkström