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Mar. 27th, 2006 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonWonderfully awesome yoga class yesterday, just the right balance of standing and twisting and backbends for me to be reduced to a happy little corpse at the end. And I felt all proud of me because I was one of the few people in class comfortable in reclining hero pose--not because I'm super bendy yoga girl, but because to me, that's a belly dance move ;-)
The class left me a little too mellow for my performance at the Middle East last night though; I felt like I was falling all over my feet, between blissed out fatigue and the fact that my satin circle skirt's waistband is a little too loose so it was hanging down a little too close to the ground and tripping me. It's a good thing that I've lost weight, but I need to alter all my costumes, if I am feeling optimistic about keeping it off. Though maybe it's not so much that I've lost weight as I've gotten better with posture. I don't own a scale because I find numbers have the power to make me suffer, so I avoid them. Anyway response was positive to what I did, especially my drum solo (I got people clapping along), but I felt sloppy, like my muscles were mushy and had no pick up. Which was probably exactly the case.
I stuck around for a little while to see some of classmate Nikki's set, and I was glad I did--that woman is seriously talented. She did a sword dance to some kind of cheesy remix electronica but the cheesiness worked. If you're familiar with Jehan's music, it was that kind of thing (maybe it was Jehan music, for all I know). It's funny because I'd been watching The Golden Apple: Bellydance Stars of New York earlier in the day and marvelling at how very talented dancers can be so boring when dancing to new agey 4/4 electronica. Nikki blew those dancers out of the water last night. Part of it is probably the difference between watching a staged DVD and a live club performance, but she had a dynamism and responsiveness to the music that I wasn't seeing on the DVD. Anyway, she's a great dancer and a great entertainer.
Stayed up too late due to residual adrenaline and finding the movie Orgasmo while channel surfing. Because it's not like I've never seen it before... Had planned to bring my wings to my office to do some practicing after hours, but decided to give me a small break as I expect I'll be dancing every night until next Monday, and I did take pretty much everything out of myself yesterday and only got 4.5 hours of sleep last night. The Yoga Journal e-newsletter thoughtfully sent me a recipe for sundried tomato and goat cheese penne, so I think I'll make that tonight instead of dancing. I miss cooking. (How the recipe can say the prep time is ten minutes when the first step is to soak the sundried tomatoes for 15 minutes, I don't know. Maybe it's a yoga thing.)
The class left me a little too mellow for my performance at the Middle East last night though; I felt like I was falling all over my feet, between blissed out fatigue and the fact that my satin circle skirt's waistband is a little too loose so it was hanging down a little too close to the ground and tripping me. It's a good thing that I've lost weight, but I need to alter all my costumes, if I am feeling optimistic about keeping it off. Though maybe it's not so much that I've lost weight as I've gotten better with posture. I don't own a scale because I find numbers have the power to make me suffer, so I avoid them. Anyway response was positive to what I did, especially my drum solo (I got people clapping along), but I felt sloppy, like my muscles were mushy and had no pick up. Which was probably exactly the case.
I stuck around for a little while to see some of classmate Nikki's set, and I was glad I did--that woman is seriously talented. She did a sword dance to some kind of cheesy remix electronica but the cheesiness worked. If you're familiar with Jehan's music, it was that kind of thing (maybe it was Jehan music, for all I know). It's funny because I'd been watching The Golden Apple: Bellydance Stars of New York earlier in the day and marvelling at how very talented dancers can be so boring when dancing to new agey 4/4 electronica. Nikki blew those dancers out of the water last night. Part of it is probably the difference between watching a staged DVD and a live club performance, but she had a dynamism and responsiveness to the music that I wasn't seeing on the DVD. Anyway, she's a great dancer and a great entertainer.
Stayed up too late due to residual adrenaline and finding the movie Orgasmo while channel surfing. Because it's not like I've never seen it before... Had planned to bring my wings to my office to do some practicing after hours, but decided to give me a small break as I expect I'll be dancing every night until next Monday, and I did take pretty much everything out of myself yesterday and only got 4.5 hours of sleep last night. The Yoga Journal e-newsletter thoughtfully sent me a recipe for sundried tomato and goat cheese penne, so I think I'll make that tonight instead of dancing. I miss cooking. (How the recipe can say the prep time is ten minutes when the first step is to soak the sundried tomatoes for 15 minutes, I don't know. Maybe it's a yoga thing.)
