Additional classes
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Started some more classes now that we are staying in Palermo with Fabrizio Forti. He has a great teaching technique and certainly doesn't beat around the bush when explaining that he is teaching us things that will take a year or more to perfect. He also seems to have this wonderful source of boundless energy. When demonstrating how a woman dances in a turn without feeling a connection from the man he just went flying around the room (I simply cannot describe how it looked ... it was just really funny and very well done by Fabrizio to keep the tone of the class very low-key).
We both feel like it's back to beginners' classes. =) He watched us dance once and said we needed to cover the urgent issues and the important issues in our dancing. Obviously starting with the urgent. It was more about controlling our bodies, posture and movement. Very important stuff and hard to concentrate on everything at once. These classes are very enjoyable and are really challenging us to think about the way we lead and follow movements. He will be in New Zealand and also visiting Australia soon. If we get the chance we'll definitely be going back and getting some more classes.
Kellie also did a women's technique workshop with Imogen taught by an instructor by the name of Graciella Gonzalez which sounds like it covered a lot of ground. It was about 4 hours long so Kellie came home looking a bit shattered but it sounded worthwhile.
Posted byAndrew at 5:09 am