Nooooo! The Monday pole-dancing class is already full! I didn't sign up yet because I wanted to be sure I could get off work. This is terrible news! I can still take the Tuesday one BUT I was going to take the beginner adult gymnastics class on Tuesdays starting at the end of June! They overlap, I can't take both! Whyyyy cruel world?

All I ever wanted was to be Batman. A Batman who poledances. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK??

::sobs::

Eeeeee! Rochester finally got a pole dancing class! I'm so excited! http://www.goddesshour.com
Although I apparently need to buy some heels. o_0 Um, anyone have any 8.5 heels they don't want anymore?

Do you want to watch Rachel bounce around like a crazy person and make a complete fool of herself? Of course you do!

My Bollywood class is performing in a show at the India Community Center. It's a whole musical, with dialogue in English and Indian pop songs and lots of dancing. I'm in the finale/encore, so just 2.5 minutes at the very end. If you want to come, let me know ASAP so I can get a chunk of tickets seated together. I think it'll make it easier for me to grin like an idiot if I know that friends, not just strangers, are laughing at me.

We'll also be performing our dance (not the whole musical) at the Memorial Art Gallery on May 31st. http://mag.rochester.edu/calendar/?event&id=441496 I think we'll be on around 3pm, I can let you know details for sure if you're interested.





BOLLYWOOD DANCE MANIA
Presents
RANG MANCH - COLORS OF INDIA
on
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Center Stage at India Community Center
2171 Monroe County Line Road, Macedon, NY 14502-9001

A young girl’s quest to discover a land of varied cultures and hidden mysteries – India

Come experience true Indian hospitality, with a delicious dinner & enjoy this enticing Bollywood style dance drama!

Well my Bellydance and Bollywood classes ended this week, and no Ballroom Dancing because Daddy's gone. :'( No dancing? Do not want!

I should be sensible and just take the gym classes since those're free...but they're also boring and overcrowded and not fun. Not fuuuuun. So I'll sign up for the next Bollywood class! Woo! And I was going to sign up for the next Bellydance*, but then I blithely agreed to perform in a show (May 31 and June 6) with my Bolly teacher, not quite realizing what that would entail. I will certainly need to buy a costume, and we'll have practice sessions (free), and if we want to do the whole song we need to learn more moves (not free). I cannot afford to do it all! Nor do I have time, because coordinating 2 jobs and 4 dance classes = NO. I think we won't be learning the extra moves, but if the other people in the class are up for it, do I want more Bolly or more Belly? Choices! I hate them! I'm leaning towards more Bolly because I look forward to that class more than the Belly, and I'm not sure I can get that everywhere whereas pretty much everywhere has Belly classes these days. And I think the Belly would be more repetitive than the Bolly (because you have to take 3 level 1 classes before you can move to Level 2, so there'll be a new song+choreography but the same basic moves).

I would like, at this juncture, to point out that signing up for these classes is a commitment. This will be the second time in a row I've made a 2-month commitment to be in the same place! I'm not sure if that's a breakthrough or a bad sign. It's something though. And it makes me feel way dumb for not signing on to MA instead, except then I wouldn't have the RAC job (which, despite some recent drama, is still mostly enjoyable. If GNC was a TV show it'd be a sitcom, if RAC was a TV show it'd be a Very Catty reality show), and I wouldn't have taken these dance classes. So...life. Yeah. I need to stop yoyoing between wishing I'd never been born and wishing I could have Bartish scouts so I could live every possible Choose Your Own Adventure choice.

Anyways! About that *!
*( A story involving bondage, bellydancing, and my ex. But not all at the same time.Collapse )

Mostly I'm posting this to save the links, but I thought I'd make it public and share.

So I was following some links off of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2JneittqQ (which I found because I was looking up a clothing store, Etam, that I like. i find memes in the weirdest ways), and I came across this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msy7TtyAVIc&feature=related and then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6KnUW9N3Zo&feature=related

Hot. Damn.
First of all...they have pole-dancing competitions?!? Second of all, I am completely in awe of girls who can be that strong but still look that sexy and slim. I don't think I could ever get that ripped without adding a lot of bulk, and I'll sure as hell never be that flexible or coordinated. It makes me really happy, because maybe someone like Cassandra Cain really could exist. :D These chicks are like gymnasts or dancers but they're stripping? I suppose the money's better? Not that I'm complaining. They make it so pretty...
I also really like that song in the second vid. Must remember to show it to Michelle.

More cool poledancing:
Sassy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPugqu5xZdg&feature=related

I love the girl in the pink shirt on this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjIYSVZv5mc&feature=related She looks like she's just messing around and making up tricks for fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-Z_mvt6ZU&feature=related

I think most fangirls, when watching poledancing, imagine Nightwing doing it. or maybe just me and Stacy... If you'd like a better image of what that might look like - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OJTUDOHFaU&feature=related Hot. Damn. Can backs be double-jointed?
Holy ShinyPants Batman! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcZBNPULCiQ