so ran her Descent Into Dance Hell class from vibecamp at and i went this time and i'm glad. the main thing i learned is that i constantly judge every move i make when dancing, monitoring myself to make sure my movements aren't too feminine or too sexual
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there were a handful of times when the inner critic fell asleep at the wheel and i was actually "just dancing" without thinking about it but it only lasted maybe a second each time and then the inner critic abruptly woke up again and then i had to suppress it. frustrating :/
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i really don't understand how to feel good dancing solo but in a group (as in i'm not dancing with anyone else in the group). it's a weird mix. there's people around and we're dancing but they're not reflecting my energy or vice versa? we're not synchronizing? it feels lonely
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i was confused about to what extent i should be dancing "with" everyone else, opening up my awareness to include them; was my awareness supposed to just be on my own body and the music?
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idk about what aella expected/wanted, but at the vibecamp one i very purposefully excluded other people from my awareness because i wanted my idea of what i was doing to come entirely from the music
i think it would be v hard to dance in that way with another person
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i actually think it's a lot of fun to dance this way with another person! i have done this with aella a handful of times and really enjoyed it, it's fun passing interpretations of the music back and forth
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oh hmm, by passing back and forth do you mean one of you dominates the interpretation and then cedes it to the other person? or more like receiving their interpretation at the same time you're producing yours?
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i think part of my self-isolation decision at vibe camp was that my interpretations all felt much faster/higher energy than what other people were doing, and i didn't want to feel peer-pressured into changing what i was doing
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