DAY 30 - October 9th 2014 (By Luise Knofe)

DAY 30 - October 9th 2014 (By Luise Knofe)

Hey Dear Blog-Readers,

Is it already October? October 9th? OMG the time here in Malmö is running so fast! We have been here now for almost 6 weeks and we just finished our last day with the amazing Huyen from Norway. So our day started with Huyen and with repeating all of the foundation routines we learned from her. We were all so scared to mess up, because she has some crazy punishments for that! As you maybe already read on Tuesday, she made us sit in a 90 degree angle at the famous Hip Drop Wall for 10 minutes! That was insane and a hard fight for our bodies and mind to not drop now. Just in case you want to see us sitting there, check out Lin's Instagram video of our punishment. But as I can tell you now, we didn't have to sit there again. Thank god! But we were sweating anyways. The way Huyen teaches is incredibly motivating and she made us dance her routines full out. After the dancing our bodies and minds were awake, warm and ready for practicing her Choreo. We “wiggled” around to Jason Derulo. We wiggled in every direction of the room, we wiggled soft, we wiggled hard, we even wiggled around as Cowboys against each other.

“Wiggling all day, everyday...from now until the end” (wiggle, wiggle, wiggle) So we already were kind of crazy when we started freestyling... not normal freestyle!!!! We got some crazy tools again to improve our freestyle. So just imagine a animal which is a mix of an monkey and an octopus and goes through water, fire, air (yes it's even able to fly!) and the desert. I felt like a little child playing around.. I just was disturbed in one moment when octopus-Zhian was swimming through the desert, while monkey-Simonne was trying to fight with the fire on her feet and finally flying away from it. But in the end I discovered a lot of new movements for myself and I love the moment when you are so involved in the task that you really think you are that crazy-talented animal and just go for it.

Next Stop: Ballet with Laura (yes I know now, after I lost my bet with Zhian in the first week, her name is NOT Lauren) I really have to say that I am proud of our boys and how they improve in Ballet. For me Ballet is like a Flashback to my past and I enjoy watching the process of those of us who never had Ballet before, while trying to push myself as well to improve too and to not forget about the technique. We had a lot of fun today in Ballet, since we are turning pirouettes and everyone is trying to turn as much as possible. Sometimes the Hip Hop habits are shining through instead of the Balletposes and especially when we are doing big jumps we sometimes just have to laugh out loud about each other.

After a nice Lunch Break with a lot of Chicken (that turns into our favorite food here) we had our last class with Huyen. We created a choreo all together out of the foundation moves we learned and with some of the freestyle tools she gave us. That was fun, energetic and full out again. In the end we had to dance our name (for all the german people reading this: no we did not dance it like in the Waldorf schools, we danced it much cooler)

We didn't really want to stop, but we had to. After a nice last talk with Huyen and some crazy group pictures, which you can see on facebook, we went home. We went home happy, tired and hungry...Dinnertime, chilling and get some nice sleep to be fit for the amazing Rob Rich tomorrow. 

Are you already jealous about our schedule? I would be.  

Stay tuned for the next article!

Lots of Love

Luise