March 10 – What did we do?

In Beginner we reviewed hip slides and circles and rib cage slides, arch and contract and circles. We then learned hip crescents and how to do a step touch with them, hip twist shimmy, hip lift shimmy, unweighted hip lifts (aka choochoo), unweighted hip drops and how to move forward and backward with Choochoo.

In Intermediate we worked on the two simplest ways to play the Kashlimar rhythm on the zils, reviewed the ¾ shimmy on the down, learned the pelvic shimmy, worked on bellyrolls, learned two new tribal combinations (Choochoo 4 pt turn and Fu Man Choochoo), learned how to hold our skirts, various positions we can hold them in, how to do figure 8s with the skirt, swishy skirt and catch-me skirt, then adding figure 8s to grapevine and rocking step w/hop, swishy skirt to kashlimar walk and catch-me skirt to both 3pt turns and paddle turns. We then started learning the choreography to Hoplanda.