July 17, 2021
Woahhh, how does this work again? Getting the rust off our legs, like newborn babies (which I've had a couple this week) we re-learned the basics of Swing and Waltz at last week's Wednesday dance. That old feeling of nervous weirdness hung over us as we turned on the boom box, legs feeling like spineless sea slugs. "Does this dance thing really work, or have I lost it all in the covid fog last year?" I wondered. Answer: Yes & No. Pretty soon, after a few rounds of suitably catchy music, the feeling of grooviness started to grow from our feet up, transforming us from lethargic jellyfish to bouncy swingers. Just the basic in place, with an UnderArm half-turn and rewind, began to feel like a happening pattern, to the heavy Elvis beat. The bouncy feeling stayed with me all day. I stopped at Trader Joes after our dance. Hearing the store's piped music of Fleetwood Mac and Creedence Clearwater Revival as I hunted for dolmas, my legs yearned to bust out dancing down the canned beans aisle. Yes, that great feeling is still in there, sleeping in our feel. All the great songs come alive in our souls again when we dance to them with real humans. It's all coming back.
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FOOT Notes from Teacher PeggyAuthorPeggy Pollard has been teaching social/ballroom dance in Santa Cruz since 2010. Archives
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