Don’t Feel Like Dancing
I like to think that I am fairly good at dancing. By dancing
I mean, dancing on the dance floor or stage of a club. Just give me a beat;
reggaeton, hip-hop, techno, you name it. When I’m in the mood, I’ll get it started, run it, work it, pump it, make it clap, dip it low, and then drop it like it’s hot. Yeah, it’s like that, y’all, I’ll be 1, 2 stepping until I lose my breath. There is not 1 thing
that can stop me (or at least that is what I think). Seriously, if you don’t
believe me why don’t cha come along
and shake ya tailfeather with me in da club.
However, now that I am in Dublin, I have not really partied and danced
hard in a club. But as I was going out of my gym, I noticed that they offer
dance classes as well. Needless to say, I was interested.
So yesterday, I challenged myself. I mustered up all of my
confidence and joined the beginners’ hip-hop class. I said to myself “how hard
can it really be?” This of course came back and bit me on the ass, because surprise,
surprise, I sucked. A lesson for everyone: do not underestimate anything
(well unless, if it’s just a small ant, in that case then just stomp it and it’ll DIE, MWAHAHA!)
Ahem, back to topic: Well, I didn’t really suck, at least not
initially. The class began with some simple hip-hop steps. Bear in mind that
this is my very first time in having any ‘formal’ dance education. I stumbled a
bit, but eventually I got the steps down. But then the instructor decided that
she’d teach us some Salsa. Uh oh.
It was disastrous. I just couldn’t keep up with the pace, or maybe I am just simply bad at receving instructions. It was as if I had two left feet. I believe I looked very awkward and uncomfortable, and the fact
that there were only 3 guys in the class did not help either. At the end of the class I concluded that apparently my upper body can groove, but the lower part, well, they’re just not that hot.
I’m gonna stick to dominating dance floors. Fer now.
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PS: Can anyone rightly guess how many song titles I used in this post?
