The week in review

New sessions started for beginner and intermediate levels this week.

In beginner we discussed what to wear to class and the class format. We then worked on glute squeezes and warmed up our shoulders with shoulder rolls before proceeding to releves and plies sequence. We then did tummy pushes. Next we learned proper dance posture, pretty hands and various arm positions. We finished the class by learning hip and rib cage slides.

In Intermediate we warmed up with glute squeeze singles and ¾ time followed by pigeon stretch, we then did shoulder rolls and two other arm exercises, followed by wall pushups and eagle and cow face poses. We warmed up and did our accent drill with 3s on the zils then worked on the rhythm 3-1. We then did our ¾ shimmy on the up and ¾ shimmy on the down practice drills. We worked on diagonal rib cage lifts and drops, accented belly pushes and double hip drops and double hip lifts (Ms and Ws). We then reviewed all beginner level tribal moves.

Advanced was a continuation of the same session as we have a 10 week session this summer. We warmed up then did single fan veil improv in the right hand, then in the left hand. We then talked about the concepts of together, chasing and mirrored when it comes to double fan veil. We then worked on the closed fan veil technique we had covered in single fan veil as double closed fan veil using the concepts of together, chasing and mirroring. We covered proper back bend technique and worked on learning the choreography Dream.