Friday, April 27, 2007
My love-hate relationship
A rambly post about salsa, which i am sure, is inordinately boring for people who do not dance the dance. You may want to stop reading here, if that's the case.
For salsa people who intend to read the following post, please note that this is a pointless, rambly, need-to-get-out-of-my-system-not-macking-any-point post. Other than that, please carry on.
p/s: this post is SO NOT directed at Johnny. Just in case ANY of you bozos think otherwise.
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I don't know what's wrong with me. I feel like dancing, yet I don't feel like dancing.
JP said I was too uptight because I told him that I wanted to go back to salsa but I no longer had anymore goals to attain, I find it boring. Meaning no more classes to progress to, no more different types of dance to learn. (I refuse to take classes for Merengue, in case you were wondering).
For me, salsa has been reduced to social dancing. Which bores me, because the aim of social dancing is...to socialize.
As you all know, small talk with people I am not so familiar with is not really my forte per se. I can do it, but I feel really fake at the same time.
The problem with small talk is that you need to act like you are really interested, like you care..when in actuality, you will just forget what the relative stranger said to you within the next 15mins.
Honestly, do you really think the other person you are talking so earnestly to is really listening?
It's pointless process when you know whatever you said will be forgotten when the next song ends.
Anyway, back to my point on objectives.
Like Miss/Mr Anonymous pointed out the other day in his/her comment on Passion, discipline is required in the development of a skill. I guess it's easy when you are taking classes, on a performance team or if your goal is to join a competition. There is yardstick for you to measure your performance. You are aiming for something. There is a need to practice and perfect the dance. There are consequences if you do not practice.
You will want to practice your new moves when you go for class because it'll be bo hua if you don't. Besides, you don't want to be singled out by Jackson in class; ever so difficult to live down.
You need to attend practice sessions if you are on the performance team. You just have to. You don't want to drag down the team. And besides, people will laugh at you if your technique is lousy AND you are on the performance team.
You definitely need to get your act together if you want to join a competition. Unless you are aiming to be the next William Hung of salsa that is. But I assure you, the money is NOWHERE as good.
But for social dancing...it's just dancing for fun. So what if your turns are perfect? So what if you have fantastic musicality? So what if you can follow perfectly?
Yes, yes...your partner will be overjoyed. But that him/her, not you. What does it do for you?
Maybe it's really callous of me to say this, but seeing someone smile really makes your day for you meh??????
Well, good for you. It doesn't quite do it for me.
At the end of the day, people who dance socially...just dance socially. It doesn't really matter if you are right on beat. It's okay if you are off balance. And it's perfectly normal and fine to be mediocre.
I hate to be mediocre. If you are going to be mediocre, then might as well not do it at all. Why spent over a thousand dollars and 3 days a week at the club just to be mediocre? 1K can give you a super budget trip to Taiwan you know?
Anyway, I will be going to union is Saturday. I am going. I am going. I am going. I am going. I am going. I am going. I am going. I am going. I am going.
I AM GOING THIS SATURDAY!!!Hopefully, the salsa bug will return and bite me hard in the ass again.
Pls cross your fingers for me that it does. Please?
XxX,
audrey at 16:12