the Cassandra workshop

[dancingleaf]

I'm going to post this as a response to misheymo rather than a separate posting

(I decided to include this in my own journal so that I could find it again if I wanted to.) edit


my review of Cassandra's workshop

This was my very first workshop ever, don't know if that matters but...

choreography is the bane of my existence. I'm not very good with it. period. - It takes me a long time to learn a piece. Which means I found Saturday very very frustrating. I don't think I ever completely captured any of the combinations before she moved on to the next. I couldn't see what she was doing and it was far too crowded. However, there WERE people who did get it. But Sardines is a pretty accurate description

I did enjoy the performance tremendously. Two of my teachers performed solos in the first half.
Cassandra's performance was AWESOME.

On Sunday, there were about HALF the people of the day before. I only stayed until the lunch break, but it was great. She did some veil work to warm up, then some zills (about half an hour each). Yes a room full of zill beginners, however it seemed that only a few, including myself were complete beginners. She then did a bunch of hip drills and layering movements, combining the shimmy with the hip circle, fig 8, maya. Truthfully today is the workshop that best suited me. I felt like a million bucks when I captured that movement.

When I left Cassandra was going to work through lunch with anyone who wanted to go through yesterday's choreography.

I'm sorry that I left when I did, but I was just wiped out. Tired from the day before, still fighting a cold etc and I needed to get home because of another commitment.

I did enjoy it immensely and it does give me a better idea of what to look for and what to expect in my next workshop.

Comments

[misheymo.livejournal.com]

did you mean to put this in bellydancing?