- sorry I gave up on the internet cafe. Boy was she annoying. She was trying to fill in a form, while her boyfriend played chess on the other computer and they had a constant banter/row about what the form meant by forenames, if he should have moved his rook and if maybe he could stop playing for a mo and help her…..
Right so, the second class at Fatchance was again week one but of level 2 so some dancers were fairly advanced while others were obviously struggling. This made me feel much better as I was worried about my level in fatchance formula. I know most of the Tribal I have done is more open to other styles while Fatchance teaches a set of rules that are easily built on, but key to dancing in that style. What I mean is that I was worried that I might not understand the first page of rules, and if I didn’t then I couldn’t build on them. As it is I don’t think anything was expected that I hadn’t got from the DVDs. I think the really interesting thing I got from the class was the way they teach and re-enforce the moves. In the first one we only really learnt four, although you could say we did varients as we travelled in lots of different directions, and then we danced them with the changes in groups. For the second class we added the finger cymbols (so glad I had been practicing these), changes of tempo and danced in three or four formations including some backing line. This meant that by the end of the – nearly three hours – we had the few moves very solidly. we could travel and transition confidently, had good arms (even if they hurt) and the zills were working too. I imagine that if you did this for the 12 weeks you could become very strong in the FCBD formula very quickly.
We then went back to the pizza place near our hotel. I was really, really hungry and we ordered a pizza each. I figured I was maybe pigging a bit when the waitress came over to say she could bag any extras if we wanted – I had been thinking about eating the whole thing, so left a slice to appear ladylike.
