January 9, 2006

Yesterday's Jazz Class

Yesterday I managed to take my third jazz class of the week. I took the class at Joy of Motion's Dupont Circle location with Vincent Williams. That was one cardio workout. If I hadn't been taking a lot of classes and working out a lot, I would never have survived that class.

What I especially like about Vincent's class, it's Level I Jazz, is that he must have had us do 15 or so different floor exercises. It's nice to get that type of variation and get exposed to as many basic jazz moves as possible. One of the advantages of having to do different moves each time you go across the floor is that there is no time to think, there's lot of energy in the class and I end-up just going all out even if I'm not close to having the move down. I figure if I go to Vincent's class for a few month's I'll get the hang of most of these moves.

One thing I'm certain about is that I have to take some ballet classes. I'm learning a lot of the basic ballet positions just from taking a lot of jazz classes. But it would probably make life easier for me if I'd just take an intro to ballet class and get all the basics along with the vocabulary.

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