Sorry this one is out of order! It got lost in the technological stack!
loved the extended taxim section Saturday AM. The side bend ( think of a rubber band stretched between your two hands while they're over your head, now pull one arm away and down to shoulder height, then roll the shoulder an come back up) with the arm push down and roll has been one of my favorite simple movements since I started class. It really helped me a couple of weeks ago when Palika explained that the shoulder roll that ends the downward movement of the arm happens on the 1, not on the 4. I had been trying to rush it in on the 4 since I started dancing. Yesterday she did a side bend pattern, that started with the right arm, came back up, followed with the same movement on the left arm, then back up, then both hands pushed down down, back and up on the right side, then the left side. Then a full arm sweep with both arms out in second, and down into first position and back up the center line of the body and back up over the head into 5th.
We worked on alternating, continuous shoulder rolls while keeping our elbows close to our sides an using our hands in a sympathetic floreo that is reminiscent of a cat kneading it's paws.
She also did a 3 step shimmy with a hip drop. This one was new for me, and it was funny because Crystal was working on a similar movement in class on Wednesday night. This one will take me a long time I think. It goes, R, L, R. Left ball up while glut squeezing L, then R. then L, R, L, Right ball up while glut squeezing R, then L. Some people are able to do this while walking, right now, I'm not one of them.
The combo this week was:
4 basics
2 push turns
4 single shimmy's
8 arabic 2's start hands in 5th., plunge down to shoulder, then low first, sweep up through second into 5th. again for a total of 4 arabics. Then second set, one hand sweeps down through 3rd. and into low first then back up the center line to 5th. Then the same with the opposite arm.
2 crossover steps to change weighted sides
4 hip bumps back on the unweighted side to prep for the beginning of the next phrase.
loved the extended taxim section Saturday AM. The side bend ( think of a rubber band stretched between your two hands while they're over your head, now pull one arm away and down to shoulder height, then roll the shoulder an come back up) with the arm push down and roll has been one of my favorite simple movements since I started class. It really helped me a couple of weeks ago when Palika explained that the shoulder roll that ends the downward movement of the arm happens on the 1, not on the 4. I had been trying to rush it in on the 4 since I started dancing. Yesterday she did a side bend pattern, that started with the right arm, came back up, followed with the same movement on the left arm, then back up, then both hands pushed down down, back and up on the right side, then the left side. Then a full arm sweep with both arms out in second, and down into first position and back up the center line of the body and back up over the head into 5th.
We worked on alternating, continuous shoulder rolls while keeping our elbows close to our sides an using our hands in a sympathetic floreo that is reminiscent of a cat kneading it's paws.
She also did a 3 step shimmy with a hip drop. This one was new for me, and it was funny because Crystal was working on a similar movement in class on Wednesday night. This one will take me a long time I think. It goes, R, L, R. Left ball up while glut squeezing L, then R. then L, R, L, Right ball up while glut squeezing R, then L. Some people are able to do this while walking, right now, I'm not one of them.
The combo this week was:
4 basics
2 push turns
4 single shimmy's
8 arabic 2's start hands in 5th., plunge down to shoulder, then low first, sweep up through second into 5th. again for a total of 4 arabics. Then second set, one hand sweeps down through 3rd. and into low first then back up the center line to 5th. Then the same with the opposite arm.
2 crossover steps to change weighted sides
4 hip bumps back on the unweighted side to prep for the beginning of the next phrase.
