Remember we only have one more session left, before the Easter break. If there's anything you want to go over, let me know and I'll plan it in for next week.
I started with some shimmy practice, including an exercise in varying your shimmy to suit your music. I used the start of this piece of music, by Hossam Ramzy:
The point of the exercise was to listen to the rise and fall of the music, and adapt our shimmy intensity accordingly. If the music was high-pitched or quick, the shimmy was smaller and tighter. If it was slower, deeper, then the shimmy was slower and looser. Try it! Nothing fancy, just listening to the music and trying to respond to what you're hearing. This exercise works with the first 3m 25 seconds of the piece, before the other instruments and the beat come in.
By the way, this musical instrument is called an Oud and it's basically a lute. Fun fact - the word "lute" comes from the arabic, el oud.
This week we did a bit of technique work on Hip Twists - not too much because twists can lead very easily to getting a stitch! We did some twists on the spot, briefly, mainly for practice, and then used them as an accent, with a shimmy or with a walk. Then we used the twist as a travelling movement.
We also worked on a movement combination that I call a 1-2-3-Ee-Ee(!) This isn't a move I use very often in itself, but I really should, because it's nice and swingy. We did this on the spot and travelling.
Edited, at long last, to add the video clips...
I said the videos would be coming, but I was rather late with them, so my apologies about that. Here they are now. First the Hip Twists:
And now the 123-Ee-Ee
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