As the post title suggests, I am in the mood to dance :-)…but then when am I not! If there’s one thing I enjoy anytime, that would be dancing. I may not know all the moves and know any specific dance style but I know I can dance! Lolz…I think that’s true for most of us! I admire people who are quick to learn and pick up moves and steps. Now that I’ve been learning formally for the past month and a half, I know it’s not that easy to coordinate and learn to dance to a song on stage. It’s been fun so far and I think there’s not a single person in my class who hasn’t had a good time learning and dancing to their hearts content. I think in this respect, much of the credit would go to our instructors and the enthusiasm they generate amongst us.
I must admit that although I do love to dance, I joined classes hoping that I would get a chance to be out of the house learning something new and this could also help me lose weight and get some much needed exercise! Well, all that’s been true so far but another thing dance class is going to do is give me (and others in class) a chance to perform in front of an audience. I think I did mention I have stage fright? I mean not in extremes but yes, I am definitely not comfortable in front of an audience. So this will be a good way to overcome some of that fear…I am trying to take this in a very positive way :-)
So, I spend a lot of time practicing my dance moves much to amusement of Rajiv who I think could do the dance too now that he’s seen me doing it a zillion times!!! Vedant has his “presentation” (on stage) the same day as I do but he’s of course got no fear of being on stage…he’s bindaas! Lolz…and yes he knows my dance better than his own now. When I’m dancing, Vedant helps me by counting out aloud….5, 6, 7, and 8…lolzz
I’m the only mommy in my class and coz of me, Vedant hangs around in the dance hall while my class is on…which is why he knows my dance better than papa dear!
Last Friday, we had the “bring a friend” class and Rajiv had come along as my friend. We had a blast! The style we were taught was “Disco” and the song we danced to was “Where’s the party tonight!” (From the soundtrack of KANK)… Rajiv was all aches and pains later but now whenever he hears the song, he’ll be all grinning and showing off his moves…he he…
When I was in my teens, I had learnt an Indian dance form for a year. I learnt “Odissi” which is a classical Indian dance form which originated in the state of Orissa. I couldn’t continue after a year as dad was transferred to a new place. I started “guitar” classes but abandoned that too and then was learning “Hindustani classical” music for a while. As a teenager, I was very restless and would lose interest in all this before I actually learnt anything concrete! Now I hate to say I regret it but I know that it was a phase I went through back then and I am also optimistic enough to know that if I want to I could learn again…
About the stage fright thing, I must mention that despite this fear I have performed on stage several times…lolz…don’t ask me how though! I once worked in a play with my friends and have danced twice and sung twice on STAGE! Phew…I have a recording of one of my performances which I hate to watch though I’m quite ok in it but I feel very awkward watching myself!! Ditto for the times I’ve been on TV for news based programs. The first time was 30 mins live show on prime time (I was on the panel in a discussion)….God, I died a thousand deaths…!!! But dad said I was just fine and whatever I said actually made sense …hmmmm!
Well, coming back to dancing. At every party we go to, R and I are usually the first ones to start dancing esp. at his office annual dinners. R has no stage fright whatsoever and I am much too fond of dancing to refuse ;-)! At home, music plays all day and since I am alone in the mornings, I can dance as much as I please. So I could be washing clothes in the washing machine, dusting and cleaning and dancing all at the same time…keeping my cook quite amused at times!! Lol…when people ask me how I manage to keep fit (??!), I say “oh but I dance!”…but of course carrying Vedant and walking is still the best way to do that!!
Okk…the tracks just changed and I have to dance to this song :-)….bye guys…have fun!
Ps: Two things...Firstly I changed the profile pic (but naturally coz some ppl said it was high time I did *sigh*). Secondly, at the risk of breaking my own self imposed censorship on this blog (no more “breaking” this in future I promise!!!)…the song playing is especially for ‘Me’ (hah! I mean for Me aka John!) coz he wanted to know what song I’d play for unmarried guys…my question was would that mean a song unmarried guys would sing? Or a song I would sing for unmarried guys ;-)???! Well, I chose to put up the former for all u single men there…"It wasn’t me" by Shaggy! Ya ya…I know all u wonderful ppl are gonna curse me for this but hey… :-)…JK na :-)!!!!
Observe the lyrics (and mind u I got two versions of the same??! I googled them out ok...didn't make them up myself!!)…only a guy would hand out that kind of advice to a friend (another guy of course)…and since the rest of the lyrics are too explicit, I will refrain from putting that up!
“Let’s review the situation that you’re caught up in
Now to be a true player you got to know how to play
If she even says its night convince her to say its day
Never admit to a word when she says
And if she claims, you tell her baby no way…”
And the other version?
“To be a true player you have to know how to play
If she says you're not, convince her, say you're gay
Never admit to a word when she says
Makes a claim and you tell her baby no way…”
Huh??!
So, I spend a lot of time practicing my dance moves much to amusement of Rajiv who I think could do the dance too now that he’s seen me doing it a zillion times!!! Vedant has his “presentation” (on stage) the same day as I do but he’s of course got no fear of being on stage…he’s bindaas! Lolz…and yes he knows my dance better than his own now. When I’m dancing, Vedant helps me by counting out aloud….5, 6, 7, and 8…lolzz
I’m the only mommy in my class and coz of me, Vedant hangs around in the dance hall while my class is on…which is why he knows my dance better than papa dear!
Last Friday, we had the “bring a friend” class and Rajiv had come along as my friend. We had a blast! The style we were taught was “Disco” and the song we danced to was “Where’s the party tonight!” (From the soundtrack of KANK)… Rajiv was all aches and pains later but now whenever he hears the song, he’ll be all grinning and showing off his moves…he he…
When I was in my teens, I had learnt an Indian dance form for a year. I learnt “Odissi” which is a classical Indian dance form which originated in the state of Orissa. I couldn’t continue after a year as dad was transferred to a new place. I started “guitar” classes but abandoned that too and then was learning “Hindustani classical” music for a while. As a teenager, I was very restless and would lose interest in all this before I actually learnt anything concrete! Now I hate to say I regret it but I know that it was a phase I went through back then and I am also optimistic enough to know that if I want to I could learn again…
About the stage fright thing, I must mention that despite this fear I have performed on stage several times…lolz…don’t ask me how though! I once worked in a play with my friends and have danced twice and sung twice on STAGE! Phew…I have a recording of one of my performances which I hate to watch though I’m quite ok in it but I feel very awkward watching myself!! Ditto for the times I’ve been on TV for news based programs. The first time was 30 mins live show on prime time (I was on the panel in a discussion)….God, I died a thousand deaths…!!! But dad said I was just fine and whatever I said actually made sense …hmmmm!
Well, coming back to dancing. At every party we go to, R and I are usually the first ones to start dancing esp. at his office annual dinners. R has no stage fright whatsoever and I am much too fond of dancing to refuse ;-)! At home, music plays all day and since I am alone in the mornings, I can dance as much as I please. So I could be washing clothes in the washing machine, dusting and cleaning and dancing all at the same time…keeping my cook quite amused at times!! Lol…when people ask me how I manage to keep fit (??!), I say “oh but I dance!”…but of course carrying Vedant and walking is still the best way to do that!!
Okk…the tracks just changed and I have to dance to this song :-)….bye guys…have fun!
Ps: Two things...Firstly I changed the profile pic (but naturally coz some ppl said it was high time I did *sigh*). Secondly, at the risk of breaking my own self imposed censorship on this blog (no more “breaking” this in future I promise!!!)…the song playing is especially for ‘Me’ (hah! I mean for Me aka John!) coz he wanted to know what song I’d play for unmarried guys…my question was would that mean a song unmarried guys would sing? Or a song I would sing for unmarried guys ;-)???! Well, I chose to put up the former for all u single men there…"It wasn’t me" by Shaggy! Ya ya…I know all u wonderful ppl are gonna curse me for this but hey… :-)…JK na :-)!!!!
Observe the lyrics (and mind u I got two versions of the same??! I googled them out ok...didn't make them up myself!!)…only a guy would hand out that kind of advice to a friend (another guy of course)…and since the rest of the lyrics are too explicit, I will refrain from putting that up!
“Let’s review the situation that you’re caught up in
Now to be a true player you got to know how to play
If she even says its night convince her to say its day
Never admit to a word when she says
And if she claims, you tell her baby no way…”
And the other version?
“To be a true player you have to know how to play
If she says you're not, convince her, say you're gay
Never admit to a word when she says
Makes a claim and you tell her baby no way…”
Huh??!
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