Tanguera Journal: January 10th, 2008 – Thursday
Yesterday
evening I had the tango class! I know I’ve been waiting for it anxiously
because it was the first dance class this year! It’s funny… usually I’m more anxious about the salsa
lesson, but since I haven’t been dancing since the middle of December, now even
the tango lesson was a reason to be all smiley and happy : )
But I had
no idea it was going to make me so ecstatic… It was AWSOME!! Oh!... I got there
at around 6pm, met with the guys – Alex, Mike, Jane, Laura… We had a good
laugh, talked about the holidays and stuff. Finally, the teachers – Emily and
Joe – came and we began the class. We had our usual warm-up and then Joe said
that boys should invite the girls to dance. I was standing (intentionally…)
next to Mike… I loooove dancing with him! So, he did invite me! : D We danced
for a few songs trying to practice what we’ve learned last year and I must
admit I rocked! I’m so modest and all!! : ))
Then the
magic happened: Joe showed us a new structure. Emily was busy with some
registrations for the salsa congress that they were organizing, so Joe took one
of the girls to show us, but she didn’t manage to follow… she’s new… So he
turned to me and asked if I can help him. He’s never done that before! I felt
important, but a little scared, too (I didn’t show that!). I did good, though,
and Joe said that I must’ve done something during the holidays that I became
such a good follower… Hihihi… But he was right! I mean I had big problems
following before, and now, I don’t know what happened, it felt so easy. Maybe
the break helped all the information settle in. Who knows?
After he
showed the structure he told everyone to try it with music and he came back to
me and said “Let’s see how you do on music” and we danced an entire song! That
was another first : ) But the way we danced… that was the big surprise! I mean,
he did stuff he never taught us before, stuff that I didn’t know my legs could
do! And it was all so… I don’t know… connected and fluid and... dreamy!
I went home
after that and began to look up videos on YouTube about and with tango. I lost
myself in them until morning almost. I think it was 4am when I realized how
late it was and I had to wake up this morning to go to work. But right now I
don’t even feel tired and I still have that big kinda stupid smile on my
face… I have a very strange feeling,
like when you’re in love and it’s so good! I don’t want to lose it. It’s enough
to close my eyes and remember the dance from last night and it all comes back:
the ecstatic feeling, the smile, that other world I’d discovered. I want to
jump up and down with joy, but I’m at work, so I really can’t. So play another
tango and just let my imagination do what I saw in all those videos last night.
I feel like
I’ve just discovered my fantasy world! : )
