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parasitegirlIt's Friday night.
I think I've budgeted my time as well as I could have. Tomorrow, Saturday, I teach three classes and I think I am ready for all of them, including the one I am substituting for (because I had to review a choreo for that one). I actually will have next Saturday off from classes (sort of) because I'll be dancing in an event one of my students hired me to be a guest for.
Saturday after the three classes I may opt to get a massage or I'll scurry home to freak out a bit more re: Sunday's 2.5 hour workshop in Yokohama. This will be the first of two workshops: This Sunday is the "basic" workshop on Turkish Roma 9/8 with zills and next Sunday is the choreography. I still need to pick which sections of the choreography I will be using for that class's practice combinations but the good news is that I think I've finished the choreography, mostly, yeah. I'll admit, there's a 40 second improvisation section but it's a taksim over a 9/8 base and needs to be improvised...and if I choreograph it we'll never finish.
The Basics workshop is either sold out or one away from being sold out. The choreography workshop is over half full so far. We think many students are worried about it being too hard and will make up their minds after the Basics.
I HOPE that it's not all too hard. I plan to spend little to no time sitting and playing any of the zills without movement...because I want those students who get frustrated with the zill layer to be able to sometimes remove the zill layer and focus on the movement they are learning and then return to the zills when that frustration passes. I think I've made a choreography that benefits from the zills but can also be performed, or studied from, without zills if need be.
Next week will be about as crazy as can be...but I've planned a few times where I can opt out of this or that and nap or destress if needed.
Now I shall enjoy some sparkling sake, watch something brainless, and clean enough of my apartment that it won't stress me during the busy times (or distract me from other things I need to focus on when I get stressed)
I think I've budgeted my time as well as I could have. Tomorrow, Saturday, I teach three classes and I think I am ready for all of them, including the one I am substituting for (because I had to review a choreo for that one). I actually will have next Saturday off from classes (sort of) because I'll be dancing in an event one of my students hired me to be a guest for.
Saturday after the three classes I may opt to get a massage or I'll scurry home to freak out a bit more re: Sunday's 2.5 hour workshop in Yokohama. This will be the first of two workshops: This Sunday is the "basic" workshop on Turkish Roma 9/8 with zills and next Sunday is the choreography. I still need to pick which sections of the choreography I will be using for that class's practice combinations but the good news is that I think I've finished the choreography, mostly, yeah. I'll admit, there's a 40 second improvisation section but it's a taksim over a 9/8 base and needs to be improvised...and if I choreograph it we'll never finish.
The Basics workshop is either sold out or one away from being sold out. The choreography workshop is over half full so far. We think many students are worried about it being too hard and will make up their minds after the Basics.
I HOPE that it's not all too hard. I plan to spend little to no time sitting and playing any of the zills without movement...because I want those students who get frustrated with the zill layer to be able to sometimes remove the zill layer and focus on the movement they are learning and then return to the zills when that frustration passes. I think I've made a choreography that benefits from the zills but can also be performed, or studied from, without zills if need be.
Next week will be about as crazy as can be...but I've planned a few times where I can opt out of this or that and nap or destress if needed.
Now I shall enjoy some sparkling sake, watch something brainless, and clean enough of my apartment that it won't stress me during the busy times (or distract me from other things I need to focus on when I get stressed)
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Date: 2013-10-25 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-25 11:10 pm (UTC)I was woken up many times last night by long earthquakes...and seem to have been able to put things by the door in case of evacuation.
Truth is, I was so tired that I didn't fully register what was happening and am just now checking on the severity.
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Date: 2013-10-25 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-25 11:16 pm (UTC)Those quakes started around 2AM my time so they mostly kept waking me up...but due to how exhausted I was I fell back asleep as soon as each one stopped.
The good news is the thing we worried might interrupt classes, a typhoon, is not moving closer.
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Date: 2013-10-26 05:31 am (UTC)You are going to raq your student's world in the workshop, I just know it :D:D
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Date: 2013-10-25 07:07 pm (UTC)(Also thinking of Japan today.)
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Date: 2013-10-26 04:35 pm (UTC)