Dance! Woo!

I survived my first dance class!  Woo!  Every muscle in my legs are shaking and I'm dripping in sweat...but I survived!

There are four people in the class (so far).  Two have been tapping for a couple of years.  Then there's me.  I clogged for a year once upon a time.  And the fourth has never worn a pair of tap shoes (other than to try on the pair she's got) in her life.  She's in the same boat I am -- maybe this will help us jiggle some of this extra weight off.  (Okay..yeah...I danced oh-so-long ago and wanted to dance again.)

So the instructor would do some for all of us, then would set more "advanced" steps for our "advanced" dancers.  I'm having some balance issues, but I could do everything except a backwards flap with little trouble.  I was told that I was doing well transitioning from clogging to tap.  My response?

"You know, it's been over 20 years since I took clogging."

"Really?  Either you have some natural talent, or it's all coming back to you really fast." 

My thought?  It's like riding a bike, right?  (Although, if it's talent, then we know where little K gets it from, right?)

So, we ended with "tap cardio".  Five minutes or so of move-it move-it get your heart rate up and sweat.  Holy cow -- I was already sweating!  And then stretching out at the end....I can't stand on one foot and stretch anything.  Even the "newbie" was better balanced that I was.  My tree met a logger.  (Tree, if you don't know, is that yoga move that I've never been able to do steadily where you stand on one leg with the other leg on your thigh.  Yeah.  You can't do it either, can you?)