C1 Dance Concepts Weekend
Jan. 10th, 2009 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisJohn Marshall is hosting & calling a C1 concepts weekend in York, PA, this weekend. We almost went to last year's event but we had a conflict of some variety. No excuse this year!
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deege arrived at our home around 4 PM. After packing a few last minute items, we tossed everything into the PrincessMobile and headed north around Baltimore and up I83. Traffic was vastly better than we were expecting so we had more than sufficient time for a leisurely dinner at a local bar & pub before heading to the 8-10 PM dance block.
The was largely routine C1 level dancing: it was a useful warm-up for the floor and an opportunity for John to toss out some ideas to check the floor level. We know nearly everyone here: if they're not in our current C2 class (also taught by John) or the DC Lambda Squares, we know them from Billy Harrison's regular C1 dances.
Nearly everyone is a pretty good dancer although there are a few people who are hesitant in their execution of calls (presumably from lack of floor time or experience) and a few who are slow because of injury or old age. Most of the challenge level dancers I know are fairly reserved, perhaps even repressed: they seem to work hard at offering no expression or emotino whatsoever while dancing. It's impossible to tell if they're having a good time or bad. No so with this crowd: there is frequently cheering when they feel the success of a correctly executed sequence. Yay for expressiveness!
This morning, we had a very fillling breakfast at the local market before returning to the Yorktowne Hotel for the 10 AM-12 PM dance block. This first instructional block was almost entirely devoted to the concentric concept. I can't say I have all of the pecularities internalized even yet: I need to map them out carefully. That said, my instinct has served me pretty well nearly 100% of the time, even on some of the ugliest calls which John readily admitted would never call outside of a workshop.
We used the lunch break to return to the market to buy some dark chocolate almond bark, misc other candies, and two pies to share at the party John & Mary are hosting this evening. Let's hope I can restrain myself long enough that we actually get the goodies to the party!
deege arrived at our home around 4 PM. After packing a few last minute items, we tossed everything into the PrincessMobile and headed north around Baltimore and up I83. Traffic was vastly better than we were expecting so we had more than sufficient time for a leisurely dinner at a local bar & pub before heading to the 8-10 PM dance block.The was largely routine C1 level dancing: it was a useful warm-up for the floor and an opportunity for John to toss out some ideas to check the floor level. We know nearly everyone here: if they're not in our current C2 class (also taught by John) or the DC Lambda Squares, we know them from Billy Harrison's regular C1 dances.
Nearly everyone is a pretty good dancer although there are a few people who are hesitant in their execution of calls (presumably from lack of floor time or experience) and a few who are slow because of injury or old age. Most of the challenge level dancers I know are fairly reserved, perhaps even repressed: they seem to work hard at offering no expression or emotino whatsoever while dancing. It's impossible to tell if they're having a good time or bad. No so with this crowd: there is frequently cheering when they feel the success of a correctly executed sequence. Yay for expressiveness!
This morning, we had a very fillling breakfast at the local market before returning to the Yorktowne Hotel for the 10 AM-12 PM dance block. This first instructional block was almost entirely devoted to the concentric concept. I can't say I have all of the pecularities internalized even yet: I need to map them out carefully. That said, my instinct has served me pretty well nearly 100% of the time, even on some of the ugliest calls which John readily admitted would never call outside of a workshop.
We used the lunch break to return to the market to buy some dark chocolate almond bark, misc other candies, and two pies to share at the party John & Mary are hosting this evening. Let's hope I can restrain myself long enough that we actually get the goodies to the party!
