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 mean like improv kinda. "hey, here's an idea" "oh hmm interesting here's an idea that's kinda sparked by your idea" "oh hmm interesting here's an idea..."
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ooh gotcha. i keep needing to be reminded how everything is just improv
it would be cool for aella to do a version of descent into dance hell that's specifically group/partner based
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I'm not sure I have the skill to teach this; I am p good at partner dancing, but that's different from *improv* partner dancing. Contact improv would probably be the close second, but I'm not very interested in that. Tbh I'd rather teach partner miming.
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tbh partner miming would also be sick to take a class in
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yoooo i would love to see you teach partner miming aella!