Its been a few weeks since I blogged, so I thought I would bring you up to date. My class in Dudley is continuing to do well, its a nice big class full of enthusiasm and a desire to work hard and learn - in the space of 10 weeks they have learnt 4 dances! My association with Wolverhampton College has now finished so I am not teaching in Wolverhampton at the moment. I was sad to say goodbye to my students and cross with the way the college handled things but as one door closes another opens (more of this later). The last couple of weeks have been busy organising things for my show.....chasing people for music, agonising over the performance order, typing up the programme, etc. Things are now pretty much sorted and I am so excited by the show, I have loads of fabulous performers lined up.
I turned 50 a few weeks back, is it time to start worrying about my dancing coming to an end? whilst my body is able I will dance until I can't. Cutting back on my classes has helped my joint problems enormously, I think I was simply doing too much and the pain was my bodies way of saying "slow down". Have done some performances with my toupe - we did a wedding fair and a fundraiser for Midland Heart. Tomorrow we are dancing at a Bollywood event in front of the mayor and we have been invited to dance again at the dance fusion night for Compton Hospice on the 28th October. Last weekend I attended workshops in Yeovil with Wendy Bonaventura which I thoroughly enjoyed. I just love fusing Tango and Belly Dance, its great to alternate drama and grace and I learnt some fun tango moves which I have now incoporated in my Tango choreography which I am currently teaching.
Lots of things in the pipeline......Ozgen workshops - and I don't have to travel miles this time to get to them, THE SHOW, possibility of another new class and Fantasia all booked. Hopefully I will find time to update my blog a little sooner next time.
