Since I started taking classes at Alchemy of Movement in Boulder I’ve been trying to improve my hip hop skills. I never studied the genre before. I’m expanding my vocabulary of steps, learning new transitions, picking up choreo faster, and generally loosening up my muscle carriage.

Today I took a 2 hour workshop aimed at the intermediate/advanced level. It was so fun! Exhausting and super sweaty too, but totally fun. We danced for over 2 hours. The only breaks were for 3 minutes of ab crunches routine on the floor, and another “break” with strutting/posing across the floor to refresh our brains.

We were told to wear baggy pants, a tight/small top, and an oversized jacket/coat/vest. For the small group filmed performances she separated us by jacket type and my vest group was relatively small. So I took the chance (with open doors and fans blowing) to dance without a mask for the first time in forever. Eep!

How fun was this?!?

Here’s some other choreo class videos from this spring:

The girl filming this for me missed our footwork, but you get the idea.
This was a really fun style. My feet and knees must not have been hurting much that day to be jumping so high.
This was another group of kids teaching k-pop choreo. (I think I look so tired because I already took an hour of zumba that morning, and the class vibes were uncomfortable). This k-pop class was better than the one I tried last year, but still pretty bad: weak warm-up and bad explanations. The teacher clearly learned the dance off of a youtube tutorial recently and couldn’t really perform or explain the steps like a real choreographer. Plus the class wasn’t fun. Like last time, I felt like I was intruding on a group of nervous friends at a university club. Here’s the original dance. It’s too bad I can’t find a really good k-pop class.
I was fighting a depression spell this week with the news of Moonbin’s death. My brain was a little slow linking the moves so my performance looks halting, but overall not bad.
One final vid from today. I was soo tired, I did NOT want to get on the floor at the end šŸ˜