I've got the BUG!

The Dance Bug that is =p

I'm into my 5th week of classes and still having a swell of a time!
Rock & roll took 4 classes and we've just started the waltz and my oh my, when i saw the senior class in action the other evening, it got my heart skipping a beat... the graceful move & poise... so technical yet amazingly beautiful!

Our sweet male instructor is a petite chap. But he seems to be one mean dancer on the floor.
Because of my height, I feel like a towering giant when i stand next to him but the awkwardness soon disappeared as he confidently lead and taught us the moves.

I've watched the movie Shall We Dance some years ago and loved it... but thought i'd just view some clips on youtube just for fun. It got me chuckling as i identified with some of the parts which the character Richard Gere was playing. The clumsiness when you fumble through your first few routines, the fun we have when we practice routines with our classmates of the same gender (since we lack the male counterpart in our classes), the excitement when you finally manage to do the whole routine,  the passion that fuels you that makes you naturally practice your foot steps under your worktable while you're working on your computer, just do a twirl or two while walking in the park etc...

A dialogue from the scene:
"What makes you wanna dance?".... the reply was simply, "It makes me happy".

It's hard for me to explain that sort of feeling... i likened it to that sort of thrill i get when i had a good jamming session with the gang, it leaves you contented yet inspired.

If you happen to have just the tiniest inclination to take up dancing, i urge you to go ahead!
I promise you'll have one amazing "ride" too!

Oh! Tuesday is just 2 days away! Yeah!

Putting on my dancing shoes... FINALLY!

As a little girl, i remember twirling & swirling in my parent's room imagining myself as a dancer.

In primary school, a group of us came together and formed an all-girl dance group and we learned through dance moves from MTV (which was all the rage back then in the 80s) by popular boy bands eg NKOTB... (well if you grew up in the same era as i did, you'll know what this acronym stands for ;)


It's strange how i never thought of taking dance lessons back then.
I never gave it much thought but i remember every time i listened to music, it sort of makes you wanna break out in a dance even though you don't necessarily know how to!
I was never exposed to the club scene... except for that one time when a few of us went to party for christmas eve but good thing, blinking lazer lights and loud music ain't really my thing.

When i was in my early 20s, a good friend introduced me to Jazzercise and we happily went for classes together.
Then there was a time back at church when we formed a group to do a dance presentation to the song, Shackles. My sis and another friend did the choreography and we had so much fun practicing the steps at a friend's father's gym/studio. And the whole group of us, i don't think anyone of us had any form of dance lessons between us. They just whipped up the steps and we danced!
In the gym, i wasn't interested in the weights or the running, i simply love the dance classes.
I've not done any form of dance exercise for some time now but i've harbored the dream of taking proper dance classes since then.

So enough of dreaming and procrastinating. I'm not getting any younger and since i have a little wee bit more of free time compared to luke's early first 2 years and before  babe no.2 comes along,  i'm gonna put all the trepidation aside and am more determined than ever to just do it!

So here am i just waiting for tuesday to come bcos that'll be THE day for my first official dance class! Yay! Time to burn off those extra calories and have myself some FUN!
*Fingers crossed i don't come back with broken bones ;)*


picture extracted from Gina Maxine Photography