Superstars revisited!

Last Friday, we got to do a great small group performance at the Fountain Square Theater swing dance. There was all sorts of fun lindy hop craziness--jumps and drops and flips!
There were three couples dancing the routine, Jon and Sandy, Kathy and Aaron, and Doug and I. We've been working on this routine since early in the fall, managed not to mortally injure each other in the process and had a great time!

Kathy and Aaron are the same great dancers who taught the original "Superstars" performance class for us last year. In addition to teaching us all the whole routine, they also did the choreography for the second half of the dance.

Post by Fiona Becker.

Superstars!

It's true! Doug and I were superstars on Friday night.

For the past few months we've been taking a Performance Lindy Hop (aka Superstar Lindy) class from Naptown Stomp. Our instructors (the fabulously great Kathy and Aaron) choreographed and taught a very snazzy lindy routine to 8 dance couples. Last Friday night at the Fountain Square Theater swing dance, we managed to not fall on our faces as we performed during one of the intermissions.

This class ended up being a great idea. I think it was the first time I ever took a dance class that really required a lot of rehearsal outside the class to make it a success. We definitely learned some really slick moves--we haven't quite figured out how to fit into our regular dancing, but we will soon! It was a great way to really get to know the other Naptown Stompers a whole lot better. Our only complaint was that the ultimate goal of the class, the performance, was only 2 minutes long! We want to do it again!!

Many, many thanks need to go to Kathy and Aaron for the tons of time they put into making this a success. They did a great job with us. And to Sandy for giving us a place to rehearse on the weekend. And to all the Superstars for working so hard! And one final thanks to Debra, for taking the video of the performance for me!

One of my favorite comments from a friend afterward the performance was "Fiona, you looked like you were having a great time, but Doug looked like he was concentrating very hard." :)

15 minutes of fame....err...maybe 30 seconds?

Yesterday, my co-worker Ellen and I went to our usual lunchtime yoga session. We were surprised to find a news crew there. Our yoga studio has a promotion running right now called"Resolution Revolution", which is essentially a challenge to attend a yoga or pilates class every day for 30 days. The news crew was there to interview a woman who is on her 25th day in the program.

And Ellen and I got our 30 seconds of fame doing yoga on the news. :)

I've finally figured out that I could actually be in Indianapolis for 30 days if I were crazy enough to start the program next week. I may have even convinced Doug to join me. Mwhahahahaha.

On a sad note, while I was anxiously awaiting my yoga debut on the news last night, I caught the breaking news on the shooting at Northern Illinois University. Since my niece, Tiernen, goes to NIU, I started the phone tree to make sure she was okay. No answer from Tiernen, no one home at Siobhan's (my sister, her mom), no answer from Siobhan's cell...and I was dialing her dad, I was immensely relieved to see a call coming in from Siobhan. She had already talked to Tiernen, and she was alright.

I'm relieved that my funny, wonderful niece is safe, but I'm so sorry for the poor victims, and their families and friends.