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Oct. 20th, 2009
I enjoy Zumba twice a week.
I am not proud of this fact. I don't recommend that other people take zumba classes. If they do, I ask that they watch not to injure themselves, don't believe that any dance form they are shown is an accurate portrayal of that genre, and they don't blame me.
I have been meaning to mention that for the last month my Sunday night class has grown even more surreal with the addition of hava nagila in the usual mix. Don't get me wrong, my love of balkan/roma/klexmer/fusiony stuff means that I quite enjoy many of the versions of hava nagila in my mix....
I don't know if I've mentioned that Japanese school children all know how to perform a basic circle dance to hava nagila. I like to forget this fact because gyms full of Japanese children dancing to hava nagila kinda freaks me out. In Zumba class the circle dance is not much different than what I have seen children do, but classes of 30-60 year old Japanese men and women top children for "freaking me out when dancing to hava nagila." Adults in zumba class inexplicably only shout out "nagila!" when singing along.
Tonight's Zumba class will not have hava nagila, but it will have a new song with moves I have yet to determine if the instructor thinks are dance hall or bellydance (but to my eye are neither).
I am not proud of this fact. I don't recommend that other people take zumba classes. If they do, I ask that they watch not to injure themselves, don't believe that any dance form they are shown is an accurate portrayal of that genre, and they don't blame me.
I have been meaning to mention that for the last month my Sunday night class has grown even more surreal with the addition of hava nagila in the usual mix. Don't get me wrong, my love of balkan/roma/klexmer/fusiony stuff means that I quite enjoy many of the versions of hava nagila in my mix....
I don't know if I've mentioned that Japanese school children all know how to perform a basic circle dance to hava nagila. I like to forget this fact because gyms full of Japanese children dancing to hava nagila kinda freaks me out. In Zumba class the circle dance is not much different than what I have seen children do, but classes of 30-60 year old Japanese men and women top children for "freaking me out when dancing to hava nagila." Adults in zumba class inexplicably only shout out "nagila!" when singing along.
Tonight's Zumba class will not have hava nagila, but it will have a new song with moves I have yet to determine if the instructor thinks are dance hall or bellydance (but to my eye are neither).
I enjoy Zumba twice a week.
I am not proud of this fact. I don't recommend that other people take zumba classes. If they do, I ask that they watch not to injure themselves, don't believe that any dance form they are shown is an accurate portrayal of that genre, and they don't blame me.
I have been meaning to mention that for the last month my Sunday night class has grown even more surreal with the addition of hava nagila in the usual mix. Don't get me wrong, my love of balkan/roma/klexmer/fusiony stuff means that I quite enjoy many of the versions of hava nagila in my mix....
I don't know if I've mentioned that Japanese school children all know how to perform a basic circle dance to hava nagila. I like to forget this fact because gyms full of Japanese children dancing to hava nagila kinda freaks me out. In Zumba class the circle dance is not much different than what I have seen children do, but classes of 30-60 year old Japanese men and women top children for "freaking me out when dancing to hava nagila." Adults in zumba class inexplicably only shout out "nagila!" when singing along.
Tonight's Zumba class will not have hava nagila, but it will have a new song with moves I have yet to determine if the instructor thinks are dance hall or bellydance (but to my eye are neither).
I am not proud of this fact. I don't recommend that other people take zumba classes. If they do, I ask that they watch not to injure themselves, don't believe that any dance form they are shown is an accurate portrayal of that genre, and they don't blame me.
I have been meaning to mention that for the last month my Sunday night class has grown even more surreal with the addition of hava nagila in the usual mix. Don't get me wrong, my love of balkan/roma/klexmer/fusiony stuff means that I quite enjoy many of the versions of hava nagila in my mix....
I don't know if I've mentioned that Japanese school children all know how to perform a basic circle dance to hava nagila. I like to forget this fact because gyms full of Japanese children dancing to hava nagila kinda freaks me out. In Zumba class the circle dance is not much different than what I have seen children do, but classes of 30-60 year old Japanese men and women top children for "freaking me out when dancing to hava nagila." Adults in zumba class inexplicably only shout out "nagila!" when singing along.
Tonight's Zumba class will not have hava nagila, but it will have a new song with moves I have yet to determine if the instructor thinks are dance hall or bellydance (but to my eye are neither).