yay!!!! *waving of arms in air*
May. 7th, 2007 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonSeason Two of the Muppet Show is coming out in August! More frogs and dogs and pigs!
Such a strange performance at the Middle East last night. The audience was flatter than a pancake, with a couple of exceptions. The first few tables were taken up with people who seemed to know the music and enjoy dancing themselves, looked Arab, I don't know if they were just withholding their approval from dancers until they'd seen what the dancers could do or what. They watched me most of the time, but expressionlessly. It was like dancing for a roomful of white people, I tell you. The funny thing is that I was pretty happy with how my set went, so who needs the audience anyway! And there was one guy in the back who went crazy for Hassan Ya Khouli, of all things, so if my old-fashioned taste made somebody happy, then I'm happy too. Insecurely, I wondered if they just didn't like me, but M told me that the audience was the same for the dancer before me, an amazing entertainer, so I'm not going to take it personally. And at least they did pay attention, and didn't look *unhappy*, just neutral. Someone did get up to dance during my set; I wasn't sure exactly how to take that since I hadn't invited her up, but I danced over to her and smiled, we danced together a little and she sat down again, so I think that was okay. I do feel like I could have done more to engage the audience, but then again, the dancer who was on before me is very good at that so maybe it wouldn't have mattered.
That yin yoga sequence from Yoga Journal was pretty cool. I would post a link, but it seems to be in the print magazine only, not the website. The goal in a yin practice is to stay in the pose until your body says "I don't like this any more" and then convince it to stay longer and surpass the discomfort, gently pushing boundaries and overcoming one's innate tendency to back off once things start getting uncomfortable--not approaching injury, of course, but not automatically retreating in the face of difficulty. Most of the poses in the sequence I used were seated, reclining or supported, so they delivered intense stretching rather than active striving. The article suggested holding poses for at least one minute and preferably five; I found some poses I wasn't able to hold for more than two or two and a half minutes, but others I just lost time in, feeling my way deeper and deeper into the stretch and eventually realizing I'd spent well over five minutes in a pose. I felt like I was floating afterwards. I could feel a relaxation deep into my hamstrings, loosening up some chronically knotted areas. I will definitely incorporate this into my regular practice--if nothing else this kind of sequence will make for a great cool down after dancing at night--and try to learn more about it. The curmudgeonly anthropologist in me rather dislikes the term "yin yoga" for its hodgepodge mixing of cultures and philosophies, but I'll learn to deal with it.
Short dance class tonight; we're just running through our solos on the recital stage, it's not even a real class. It will be nice to get home on the earlier side.
Such a strange performance at the Middle East last night. The audience was flatter than a pancake, with a couple of exceptions. The first few tables were taken up with people who seemed to know the music and enjoy dancing themselves, looked Arab, I don't know if they were just withholding their approval from dancers until they'd seen what the dancers could do or what. They watched me most of the time, but expressionlessly. It was like dancing for a roomful of white people, I tell you. The funny thing is that I was pretty happy with how my set went, so who needs the audience anyway! And there was one guy in the back who went crazy for Hassan Ya Khouli, of all things, so if my old-fashioned taste made somebody happy, then I'm happy too. Insecurely, I wondered if they just didn't like me, but M told me that the audience was the same for the dancer before me, an amazing entertainer, so I'm not going to take it personally. And at least they did pay attention, and didn't look *unhappy*, just neutral. Someone did get up to dance during my set; I wasn't sure exactly how to take that since I hadn't invited her up, but I danced over to her and smiled, we danced together a little and she sat down again, so I think that was okay. I do feel like I could have done more to engage the audience, but then again, the dancer who was on before me is very good at that so maybe it wouldn't have mattered.
That yin yoga sequence from Yoga Journal was pretty cool. I would post a link, but it seems to be in the print magazine only, not the website. The goal in a yin practice is to stay in the pose until your body says "I don't like this any more" and then convince it to stay longer and surpass the discomfort, gently pushing boundaries and overcoming one's innate tendency to back off once things start getting uncomfortable--not approaching injury, of course, but not automatically retreating in the face of difficulty. Most of the poses in the sequence I used were seated, reclining or supported, so they delivered intense stretching rather than active striving. The article suggested holding poses for at least one minute and preferably five; I found some poses I wasn't able to hold for more than two or two and a half minutes, but others I just lost time in, feeling my way deeper and deeper into the stretch and eventually realizing I'd spent well over five minutes in a pose. I felt like I was floating afterwards. I could feel a relaxation deep into my hamstrings, loosening up some chronically knotted areas. I will definitely incorporate this into my regular practice--if nothing else this kind of sequence will make for a great cool down after dancing at night--and try to learn more about it. The curmudgeonly anthropologist in me rather dislikes the term "yin yoga" for its hodgepodge mixing of cultures and philosophies, but I'll learn to deal with it.
Short dance class tonight; we're just running through our solos on the recital stage, it's not even a real class. It will be nice to get home on the earlier side.
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Date: 2007-05-07 09:45 pm (UTC)First these headbanger types came to sit in the front for her set. As she was starting to do her veilwork, they started to shout "Heavy metal Heavy Metal" doing the whole hands in the first thing and banging their heads.
Then, during her drum solo, one of the headbanger girls got up to dance with her. Got up on stage and tried to shimmy along with Sabrina! Sabrina shimmies with her, posed for a picture, and then claps for her. It literally went on for minutes - the crowd was roaring because this poor girl was clearly soooo drunk. She even tried to go in for a big hug during Sabrina's drum solo. Can you imagine? Sabrina handled it all like a pro of course.
For all that, Sabrina didn't even get a tip from these people. I've never seen anything that deserved a tip more than that!
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Date: 2007-05-07 10:07 pm (UTC)