Dance camp!

My decision to participate in the David Dorfman Dance workshop was not entirely last minute, but definitely spontaneous and partially based on the participation of another dancer, the oh so luscious, Tara Burns.  I bet you didn’t know we were making a pirate duet.  Yep, a flippin’ Pirate duet about perching and parrots.   What fun we thought we would have dancing together all day for 8 hours.  I LOVE David, the company and the work, so it’s an added bonus to have a friend/dance partner/wife by your side to enjoy the experience.

DAY I – MONDAY, JAN 16 2012

What?!?  We are in groups?!?  Two Groups!! Group A, Group B.   Not only are we in groups of randomly selected people, or perhaps they were arranged according to registration dates, but I’m not with Tara.  Not only am I not with Tara, but I’m also not in the same group as my friend Crystal (with whom I’m staying), Meghan, Khadija, Emily…etc…and the list goes.  Bummer….major WHOMP WHOMP…back to the happy place -rainbows and puppies and…. racoons?  They’re cute too right?  

Inner dialogue:  “Suck it up Lynch, look at all the new people you’ll meet.  Oh, hey! My friend Mary from Bates and Emma from Conn College are in my group.  Yay.  Perhaps I’ll make some new friends too.  Lynch (that’s what I call myself), don’t assume you’ll be the grandma in the group.”

10-11:30am – Class at Dance New Amsterdam

Space was tight, and, yep, I am the grandmother in the group.  I say that with lightness and laughter, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed, initially.  I wanted to share this experience with my friends, my peers.  Well, I’ll have to make new ones cause these young ins’ are figgity fierce!  If I could sum up class in a sentence.  “whoops sorry, whoops sorry, whoops sorry, whoops sorry”  I felt like a caged hamster. How can one fully embody the expansiveness of this work when there isn’t enough space to explore, but that isn’t the company member’s fault who taught.  She did a great job exciting everyone, introducing Dorfman phrases and ideas with her own special flavoring.

11:30-1pm Partnering

Ah.  Back to the loving place.  This class was a wonderful refresher.  I haven’t taught contact or partnering in a while, and my vocabulary is stale.  I also don’t often get to indulge in a good weight sharing session in New Haven as it is not in a lot of the dancers’ backgrounds there.  We walked pelvis to pelvis, climbed “mountains” and felt down a falling mountain, hitting ledges (gruesome) on the way down.

At lunch time I had the opportunity to see my friends: T-Bone, Crystal and others.  We made love with our eyes and hugged our sweaty bodies together for 20 minutes and parted ways again – with resistance.  Sounds very much like a porn doesn’t it?  It’s more like a mockumentary of disgustingly sweaty and smelly dance geeks in love.  The rest of my day involved Lab with David (the Master) himself and DDD repertory.  We learned a little bit of Lightbulb Theory…sigh and tear for love.  It was a good day.   I could say so much more, and I will, but for now…adieu.