Cuban Motion
Create the frame of an angled roof between your upper body and your partner’s
Lean in
Get close, but not too close
Don’t lean on your partner
Round your frame
Bend your knees
Stay tall
Move your hips
Carry your own weight
Roll through your whole foot
Use the floor for power and support
Let your body move first, before your feet
Really attack your steps!
Dance it like you mean it
This is the hardest thing you will learn in Ballroom dancing
Cuban Motion
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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I wake up in the morning with the promise of music and movement and the kiss of sunshine.
I admire others for the way they live their lives, finding pure joy throughout it all.
I can’t stand some people because of the way they treat others as well as themselves.
Enlightenment is a really big word.
The brain can only handle so much at once, but I’d like to think that my heart could handle a lot more.
When I surround myself with joyful people, I reflect that.
I really enjoy laughing.
I admire others for the way they live their lives, finding pure joy throughout it all.
I can’t stand some people because of the way they treat others as well as themselves.
Enlightenment is a really big word.
The brain can only handle so much at once, but I’d like to think that my heart could handle a lot more.
When I surround myself with joyful people, I reflect that.
I really enjoy laughing.
cell phone paradox
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Yesterday I left my cell phone at home.
Accidentally.
For the first ten minutes, I felt nothing but anxiety and worry, “What if someone has en emergency, and the need me?!” But after that – totally freedom. (They’ll call the police if they have an emergency).
I recommend it for anyone who is game.
No one knew where I was, but no one needed to either.
I could do whatever I wanted for however long it took me.
There were no restrictions whatsoever.
Normally, my ears are always strained to try and catch my level three ring-tone.
On most days, I am always on edge, just waiting for that call that will change my life. (Well, okay that happened once but they left a message and I called them back, and everything worked out).
Usually I feel this sort of obligation to answer my phone no matter what.
Scenario: I’m having this really great conversation with a good friend, I hear my phone ring, “…Uh, hold a sec, let me see who this is...” or, every ten minutes we pull out our phones, just to make sure we didn’t miss a text or call.
What a shame.
Technology is getting in the way of normal, real, human interactions. (My opinion).
Let it be.
I’m leaving my cell at home from now on.
If you need to reach me, leave a message and I’ll check it when I get back.
That’s what used to happen, and landlines never killed anyone.
Yesterday I left my cell phone at home.
Accidentally.
For the first ten minutes, I felt nothing but anxiety and worry, “What if someone has en emergency, and the need me?!” But after that – totally freedom. (They’ll call the police if they have an emergency).
I recommend it for anyone who is game.
No one knew where I was, but no one needed to either.
I could do whatever I wanted for however long it took me.
There were no restrictions whatsoever.
Normally, my ears are always strained to try and catch my level three ring-tone.
On most days, I am always on edge, just waiting for that call that will change my life. (Well, okay that happened once but they left a message and I called them back, and everything worked out).
Usually I feel this sort of obligation to answer my phone no matter what.
Scenario: I’m having this really great conversation with a good friend, I hear my phone ring, “…Uh, hold a sec, let me see who this is...” or, every ten minutes we pull out our phones, just to make sure we didn’t miss a text or call.
What a shame.
Technology is getting in the way of normal, real, human interactions. (My opinion).
Let it be.
I’m leaving my cell at home from now on.
If you need to reach me, leave a message and I’ll check it when I get back.
That’s what used to happen, and landlines never killed anyone.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Find a Surface and Dance on it
Sleek, jumbled, crowded, sparse, cluttered, clean, dirty, white, black, glowing, cement, wooden, plastic, sprung, laid, carpet, tile, linoleum, living room, kitchen, bedroom, bed, bathroom, bar, patio, porch, deck, lawn, desert, forest, river side, mountainous, boulders, log, moss, mud, street corner – the possibilities are endless.
People find themselves on that surface for one reason: to move.
Move their bodies, stir their minds, and shake their souls.
Souls in the broadest sense of the word.
On the dance floor I can be anybody I want to be.
I find myself without inhibitions or worries.
I am transported to a timeless time.
I dance for the feeling not the look.
For the joy not the gain.
For simple love of motion.
On the dance floor there are no limits.
I have only the music, the rhythm and my body.
We are all dancers of our own accord.
We are all dancers in the most rhetoric of senses.
We are all dancers, for we find ourselves ON the floor.
Whatever or wherever that surface may be – there we will find joy in the movement or our bodies.
Find a surface and stomp on it with passion and glee.
Glide, spin, twirl.
At the very least wiggle your toes to the beat that come from within.
People find themselves on that surface for one reason: to move.
Move their bodies, stir their minds, and shake their souls.
Souls in the broadest sense of the word.
On the dance floor I can be anybody I want to be.
I find myself without inhibitions or worries.
I am transported to a timeless time.
I dance for the feeling not the look.
For the joy not the gain.
For simple love of motion.
On the dance floor there are no limits.
I have only the music, the rhythm and my body.
We are all dancers of our own accord.
We are all dancers in the most rhetoric of senses.
We are all dancers, for we find ourselves ON the floor.
Whatever or wherever that surface may be – there we will find joy in the movement or our bodies.
Find a surface and stomp on it with passion and glee.
Glide, spin, twirl.
At the very least wiggle your toes to the beat that come from within.
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