DAY 11 - September 15th 2014 (By Simonne Kraigher)

DAY 11 - September 15th 2014 (By Simonne Kraigher)

It’s Monday ... good ol’ Monday’s.

I usually don’t really like Monday’s, but today I drank coffee so I didn’t mind this Monday! I am not too sure how everyone else felt, but I know after doing Lin’s WarmUp for about 30 minutes, our abs were on fire and we were starting to feel warm. After our complete warm up of one hour, we jumped right into our first full rehearsal for our show coming up this Saturday!

 Last week (if you have been reading the blog) we all learnt each other’s Choreography, and today we started to stage it, and put it into formations with the direction of Lin and Karsten. We got a little farther than Lin expected, so that made me quite happy! :-)  I am personally really excited to see how this turns out – as its already coming along really well! EEEEEEK – soo yeah, you should all come to the show … get on the next flight  :-)

 After a well-deserved lunch, it was time to get into music theory. Now, for me, this is one of the most challenging classes. I can hear the kicks, snares, high hats and everything, but I can’t count them to music … I thought I could, until Karsten told us what the actual counts of everything was, and I was totally wrong (I am pretty sure there were some others with incorrect answers … but some of us totally don´t understand these 1 e and a’s!

 Threading, Sweep Spin, Sweeps, Hooks, Hook Turns ... and some other lingo I am unsure of is some of the breakdancing Karsten taught us today. Now, for me, I really enjoy breakdancing - when I thought I would least enjoy it. As I took class, I looked around and everyone was playing with the movements that were given to us, and it looked like we were all having a grand old time. Breakdancing has been a super fun, energetic and playful class. (I am just happy I had kneepads – I wonder how many of us are suffering from bruises).

Ended the day off with a cool down, lights off, singing away to Christina Aguilera.

 Can’t say it has been a bad Monday at all!

 PS – COME TO OUR SHOW .. Saturday, September 20th! :-)

Simonne