Spawrhawk 101

Dancing Downtown

// April 29th, 2009 // Dance

Last Sunday I was in downtown San Jose to see my girls perform in the 7th annual Dancin’ Downtown Festival hosted by sjDANCEco.  They were great!  The marley dance floor was a bit sticky to begin with and they had some problems with that in the beginning, but perservered and did very well.

As for my performance later that day on the same stage… it was more like an out of body experience.  I had this partner lift that has never given me problems before…  turn into an excruciatingly slow motion nightmare all in the course of two seconds.  My partner wound up flipping and turning and we were in the middle of spinning… and I had visions of us being in this big heap on the floor while the music still played around our collapsed bodies — yet we somehow managed to recover and I was able to put my partner down on his feet without dropping him.  Don’t ask me how I did it because I haven’t the foggiest idea how!

That’s what I love about live theatre/dance, though.   You never know what to expect.