Gypsy Jam Recap

Last weekend I jammed all the Gypsies.  Not really.  But I did dance with Alice Mei.  What what.

Thomas and Alice are pretty amazing teachers.  I really dug the first day of workshops, which worked on a lot of cool rotational leads.  I now see why their ILHC spotlights are always so ... round.

Day two was less natural to me.  The problem area - over-rotated swingouts.  Holy crap is this hard.  The main problem with it is the beginning of the move has to be led entirely from the core.  I thought I was getting pretty good about not arm leading, but apparently not so much.

Moral of the weekend: Lots to practice.  Time to go back to the drawing board on the body leading stuff.  Work on being more relaxed with footwork.

And yes, dancing with Alice was amazing.